PIRG

History of Banking

A banker or bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money

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Where do you shop?

Have you been shopping in Trinidad & Tobago and seen these INSULTIVE and Puerile Signs by UNEDUCATED RETAILERS?

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Police Brutality

Trinidad & Tobago is one of the very few civil countries where the colonial word “FORCE” is still used by its Police Service and lends connotations as to how its officers view their interactions with the community.

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WHAT IS PIRG TRINIDAD?

About

PIRG Trinidad (Public Interest Research Group) is fashioned after US Consumer’s group www.uspirg.org and is a NON PROFIT NGO founded in APRIL 2001 by entrepreneur Trevor Hosten a victim of local banking abuses, misfeasance and malfeasance, and their malevolence and immaturity for fighting back following PIRG’S public exposure of their questionable banking practices.

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YOU ARE ENTITLED TO A REFUND!

Did you know?

Many products are sold packaged and until you pay for it, take it home, open it, you then realize it is not as advertised, is porous in quality, or does not perform to your reasonable expectation you should not have to haggle with the retailer who should instead apologize for having sold you inferior goods whether known or unknown.

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#8

PIRG also wrote to warehouse retailer PRICESMART in December 2008 complaining about their then just created policy of searching the handbags of their Members on checkout, and received a prompt apology from their country Manager who assured us that that policy would be discontinued forthwith.

#7

LETTER WRITING. PIRG has written numerous letters to various financial institutions on behalf of their borrowers in order to successfully resolve consumer issues.

#6

PIRG campaigned VIGOROUSLY for local banks to cash their own cheques at ANY of their branches, staunchly arguing that cheques were drawn on BANKS and NOT on the “branch” of the account holder.

#5

Following the shocking and unprecedented publication of REQUEST TO CONTACT in which Government micro lender Nedco placed the photos of 23 of their delinquent borrowers in all three daily newspapers in March and April of 2002 ...

History of Banking

A banker or bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money

Where do you shop?

Have you been shopping in Trinidad & Tobago and seen these INSULTIVE and Puerile Signs by UNEDUCATED RETAILERS?

Police Brutality

Trinidad & Tobago is one of the very few civil countries where the colonial word “FORCE” is still used by its Police Service and lends connotations as to how its officers view their interactions with the community.