Crowe Howarth enters local financial services market By Carla Bridglal Thursday, August 31 2017 INTERNATIONAL auditing and business consulting firm Crowe Howarth will be opening two offices in the country— one in Port of Spain, Trinidad and another in Scarborough, Tobago. “As a professional service, we provide business solutions recognising that the country (has) challenges. We have the capability to assist,” Dawkins Brown, the company’s managing partner for the Caribbean told the audience on Tuesday during the official launch at the Trinidad Hilton and Conference Centre, St Ann’s. The company recognises this country has a kind of resilience for growth despite going through some “choppy waters,” he said, but the country’s problems are not localised, and Crowe Howarth is an international firm, so it had the capability to leverage that global network to help its local clients. He said small and medium enterprises will be able to access the firm’s services through a special pricing stra...

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