{"id":23118,"date":"2019-01-03T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=23118"},"modified":"2019-01-03T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:03:31","slug":"scotia-bank-says-no-to-meeting-with-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/scotia-bank-says-no-to-meeting-with-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotia Bank Says NO To Meeting With PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Executives of the Bank of Nova Scotia have turned down a meeting with Prime Minister Gaston Browne.<\/p>

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Government’s Chief of Staff told Browne’s radio station tonight that the general manager of Scotia Bank Antigua responded to the prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In essence she said there was hardly any need for the Scotia Bank officials to meet with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda.”<\/p>

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Hurst said the bank indicated that this is because “they had entered into an agreement with a private enterprise to purchase the assets and liabilities of Scotia Bank Antigua and as far as they were concerned it was done deal<\/g>.”<\/p>

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He added that the company indicated that if the purpose of the meeting was to discuss that deal they didn’t seem to see the need for a meeting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Browne who is also finance minister insists that he will not issue the vesting order necessary to make the sale of the Antigua branch possible.<\/p>

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He later wrote to Scotia bank asking for a meeting so a group of local banks can take over scotia’s operations here instead of selling to the Trinidad-based Republic Financial Holdings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hust said the requested meeting was merely out of courtesy.<\/p>

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