Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai is in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. lead­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go del­e­ga­tion at the 2025 An­nu­al Meet­ings of the World Bank Group and the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund. The del­e­ga­tion is al­so at­tend­ing the An­nu­al Meet­ing of the In­ter-Gov­ern­men­tal Group of 24 on In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment (G-24), which runs from Oc­to­ber 13 to 18.

The del­e­ga­tion in­cludes Ad­vi­sor to Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor, World Bank Group, Delvin Cox; Trinidad and To­ba­go’s IMF rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Kim­ber­ly Roberts; Man­ag­er, Debt Man­age­ment, Min­istry of Fi­nance, Zarah Mo­hammed; and As­sis­tant Man­ag­er, Debt Man­age­ment, Min­istry of Fi­nance, Stephanie Toolsie.

In his state­ment to the Min­is­ters and Gov­er­nors Meet­ing of the G-24 on Oc­to­ber 14, Gov­er­nor Howai called for in­ter­na­tion­al ac­tion to re­duce tar­iff and non-tar­iff bar­ri­ers af­fect­ing de­vel­op­ing economies. He said restor­ing con­fi­dence in a fair and trans­par­ent mul­ti­lat­er­al trad­ing sys­tem is im­por­tant to re­vi­tal­is­ing glob­al de­mand, en­cour­ag­ing in­vest­ment, and sup­port­ing di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion.

The G-24 co­or­di­nates the po­si­tion of de­vel­op­ing coun­tries on mon­e­tary and de­vel­op­ment is­sues in dis­cus­sions with the Bret­ton Woods In­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary and Fi­nan­cial Com­mit­tee and the De­vel­op­ment Com­mit­tee. The full com­mu­niqué from the meet­ing is avail­able on the IMF’s web­site.