‘By-election won’t affect investors’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a brief telephone interview, Howard said businessmen and investors were not going to be influenced by a by-election, but rather how the governance of the party engenders confidence. Warner, the interim political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), soundly beat the United National Congress in what was considered one of the UNC’s safe seats.