Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire has been fired. 

This is con­firmed by a se­nior of­fi­cial with­in the Min­istry of Fi­nance. 

There is no more in­for­ma­tion on why this was done and who will be his re­place­ment. 

Ques­tions were sent to the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent to get fur­ther de­tails on the re­vo­ca­tion of Dr Hi­laire’s ap­point­ment and Guardian Me­dia is await­ing a re­sponse. 

Two weeks ago, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said that Dr Hi­laire was re­fus­ing to di­vulge in­for­ma­tion on the top users of for­eign ex­change in this coun­try.

Dr Alvin Hi­laire was ap­point­ed Gov­er­nor and Chair­man of the Board of the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CBTT) in De­cem­ber 2015.