The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is re­mind­ing the pub­lic that to­day, De­cem­ber 17, 2021, is the fi­nal day on which it will ac­cept cot­ton cur­ren­cy notes ($1, $5, $10 and $20 bills), as well as the $50 note bear­ing se­ries dates pri­or to 2020, for any cash trans­ac­tions be­ing con­duct­ed with the Au­thor­i­ty.

In an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued to­day, WASA says af­ter De­cem­ber 17, it will no longer ac­cept the old cur­ren­cy notes, as it tran­si­tions to the new poly­mer notes sys­tem.

“This is nec­es­sary pur­suant to the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go No­tice of De­mon­eti­sa­tion of these notes, which will cease to be le­gal ten­der for cash pay­ments, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 01, 2022,” WASA’s ad­vi­so­ry states.

In ad­di­tion to WASA, sev­er­al oth­er pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor en­ti­ties have is­sued no­tices about cut off dates in De­cem­ber 2021 for re­ceipt of phased out cur­ren­cy, in­clud­ing NP, the Su­per­mar­kets As­so­ci­a­tion and Sco­tia­bank, among oth­ers.

How­ev­er, the Cen­tral Bank has is­sued no­tices giv­ing as­sur­ances that the old ban­knotes—name­ly $1, $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills bear­ing se­ries dates pri­or to 2020—can be re­deemed for val­ue IN­DEF­I­NITE­LY at the Cen­tral Bank it­self.

The Cen­tral Bank al­so con­tin­ues to re­mind the pub­lic that from Jan­u­ary 1, 2022, on­ly the new poly­mer ban­knotes will be le­gal ten­der in Trinidad and To­ba­go.