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One chamber president is hoping that any windfall T&T makes during the brewing global energy crisis triggered by the US-Iran war, should be used to diversify T&T's economy.
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00:00the president is hoping that any windfall tnt makes during the brewing global energy crisis
00:05triggered by the u.s around war should be used to diversify tnt's economy kiran singh president of
00:13the greater san fernando area chamber of commerce spoke with tv6 news briefly on the issue today
00:18we will see of course an increase in energy prices and our economy in energy based
00:25we will benefit from the increase in energy prices for the duration of the war as to how much it
00:31will
00:31increase we can't say the war just started we're not sure how long the war will last for because we
00:36are so dependent on the energy industry so that um we can use this time wisely that's why we benefit
00:43from the higher energy prices that um that that um increased bank we will have can be used to further
00:52industries outside of the energy sector to improve the balance of treated in trinidad
00:57and today he called the war on unfortunate development and global events and said our
01:03thoughts should be with those negatively impacted and quote in the middle
01:09our hearts and prayers go to the innocent persons who will suffer the fallout of a war anyways it's
01:16never a good thing for any country and um we do of our prayers to the in the sense that
01:21that are
01:22being affected by this unfortunate uh breakout of war uh on that part of the world
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