00:00 We're in an organization as its head. It is heard that documents in this case
00:06 communicate that can potentially reach the minister and then be disseminated to
00:12 the Parliament not seen and approved by a CEO. The question begs, when this was
00:19 finally brought to Miss Agard's attention as the sitting CEO, what did
00:24 she do having the power to hire and fire? What did she do? Questions posed by the
00:30 CWU Secretary General Joanne Ojiro during a media conference. She asked that the
00:35 union is surprised to hear former Chief Financial Officer Shiva Rabnarang
00:40 under whose leadership a lot of people were retrenched making mention of the
00:45 forensic audit during a GST meeting on Monday. While the former CFO is
00:50 pointificating about his fiscal prowess, it was under his stewardship he made the
00:56 tough decisions to cannibalize TSTT, ably supported by the former CEO. They
01:03 stripped the organization of invaluable institutional knowledge. They played key
01:08 roles, these workers who were sent home in 2018 and 2022. The Secretary General
01:15 is calling on the Prime Minister to do what needs to be done to salvage the
01:19 situation, saying collective responsibility is real and if the Board
01:23 of Directors urge, then they should be removed. If the General Manager of
01:28 Operations and Administration together with the newbie Kamal Georges prepared a
01:34 communique and did not substantiate the information before getting approval as
01:40 it is alleged by the former CEO, which may have misinformed the Minister, then
01:46 they too should be removed. According to Oguir, the government of Trinidad and
01:52 Tobago needs to pay more attention to the management and mismanagement of TSTT.
01:57 The union is asking the Minister of Public Utilities Marvin Gonzalez to share
02:02 the report he received from TSTT on the cyber attack with the general public.
02:06 Furthermore, the CWU wants the Board of Directors to explain its approval of a
02:12 five-year strategic plan of over three billion dollars and investment in the
02:18 OneNetwork in 2016, which expires in 2025.
02:22 Charla Kisto, TV6 News.
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