PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In his most recent interviews with the Guardian, Lawrence Duprey, former Chairman of CL Financial has his own narrative of his time at the helm of the failed financial empire. Duprey claims to have only wanted to help people save their money and to improve their standard of living. The economic downturn, in this version of the story of Clico’s failure, was the villain that laid those ambitions low. In a series of interviews over the last five weeks, Lawrence Duprey worked hard to establish that narrative in conversations with veteran journalist Owen Baptiste. He was personally frugal during his time at the help of the financial empire and concerned only with the success of his company and today, he told the Guardian in November 2012, he is both flat broke and focused on philanthropy, seeking to enhance the well-being of the less fortunate around the world