Republic Bank faces an audit after a regional regulator blasted it for belatedly withdrawing money for payments that customers made up to two years earlier. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank …
May 23, 2024
May 9, 2024
Fury at Republic Bank sparks watchdog probe
Republic Bank customers have expressed outrage at the way money was suddenly taken out of their accounts recently, and Deputy Premier Lorna Smith told the Beacon yesterday that she is …
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June 25, 2021
HOA okays new loan to pay old hospital debt
House of Assembly members unanimously voted last Thursday to approve a new $17.3 million five-year loan agreement with Republic Bank that will pay off the remaining balance of a $45 …
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September 5, 2020
Pinching pennies amid pandemic
In March, just as Covid-19 hit the Caribbean, Peter George, CEO of the Trinidad-based restaurant group Trent Limited, closed his portfolio of eateries before the government made him. “You could …
July 22, 2020
Banks look beyond moratoriums
Last week, Republic Bank Managing Director Michelle Palmer-Keizer spoke to one of her customers, a small-business owner who had received a six-month moratorium on her bank loan. “She said, ‘I’m …