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Gerald Yetming

Between 1964 and 2000 he worked for the Royal Bank of Canada and later its successor company, the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, retiring as Group Director - Regional Banking RBTT Financial Holdings Ltd.

Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

With several independent countries in the former British West Indies engaging in left-leaning policy experiments, seen by many as heading down the road towards socialism or "Communism", many Canadian banks were seeking to sever their ties in the Caribbean region so as to avoid having their operations nationalized.

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This is now RBTT Bank Caribbean, with branches in St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Bequia, and owns RBTT Bank (SKN) in Nevis and RBTT Bank Grenada.

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Union Bank, like many other Canadian banks, was drawn to the West Indies by the flourishing trade between the Canadian Maritimes (i.e. Nova Scotia) with the wider West Indies region.

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