CV trouble again

[Jah Gol]

Opposition MP Colm Imbert is calling on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to “check the CV’s” of all board members in all State enterprises”.

Imbert did so in the Parliament last evening as he claimed one statutory authority board member is unqualified for the post and a senior executive of a State enterprise is related to its chairman.

This prompted Labour Minister Errol McLeod to ask Imbert when he discovered what he called the “fraud” and whether it was reported to the authorities.

During the debate on a motion to add $2.8 billion to the national budget, Imbert spoke of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, which he said is to receive an additional allocation of $27 million.

“The person named as deputy chairman is one Kurt Adjodha. This is the person that, by law, is chairman of the tenders committee or, by regulation. I have the curriculum vitae (CV) submitted by or on behalf of this gentleman, Kurt Ajodha when he was appointed to the board of the Airports Authority on the recommendation of a Cabinet Minister,” Imbert said.

Imbert claimed the CV he was referring to showed Ajodha earned a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of the West Indies (UWI), a Bachelor of Architecture from the New York Institute of Technology and a project management professional qualification from the Project Management Institute.

“Mr Speaker, I am told the University of the West Indies has no record of this fellow ever acquiring a Bachelor’s degree in engineering. This is the deputy chairman of the Airports Authority, chairman of the tenders committee. I am told that the New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture has no record of this gentleman attending or acquiring a Bachelor of Architecture. Similarly with the project management professional, Mr Speaker,” Imbert said.

Imbert said he checked the list of engineers registered with the Board of Engineering in T&T “and there isn’t a single Ajodha on this list.
“If you go on the Internet and you look for that fella, the man is running a company called Pet City Ltd...a pet shop.”

Imbert then spoke of what he called “a situation in Nipdec.”

“The general manager of Nipdec departed from that organisation some months ago. There’s a new general manager. Who’s the general manager? I am told it’s the niece of the chairman. I am told it’s somebody who used to work in a pharmacy.”

In response to the allegation Imbert raised about Ajodha, McLeod said: “I’d like to know, certainly all of us ought to want to know, when was this fraud, if I might say so, discovered and whether we are interested in helping the process all of us. I would have brought that information to relevant authorities, except if you got it today.”

Saying there certainly is a great measure of incompleteness “in our processes” , McLeod added: “I’m sure as we go along we are going to come to scrutinising these situations more closely.”

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Imbert-Check-board-members-CVs-211319981.html

[Jah Gol]

Corruption will happen across the board but the UNC has a proclivity for this type of racket.

[Bourbon]

Yuh eh need nuttin on yuh CV except to know people. And a lack of shame.

Example

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Moonan-appointed-HDC-chairman-211319821.html

‘Moonan appointed HDC chairman’
By Renuka Singh

Story Created: Jun 12, 2013 at 11:34 PM ECT

Story Updated: Jun 13, 2013 at 7:25 AM ECT
Cross talk between Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal in the middle of yesterday’s Financial (Supplementary Appropriation) debate revealed that former Caribbean Airlines chairman, Rabindra Moonan, has been named the new chairman of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

During Rowley’s contribution to the debate, he “dared” Moonilal to appoint “the failed chairman” to the HDC, when Moonilal replied that he had already appointed Moonan and in turn asked Rowley to dare him “to do something else”.

“It is the Government’s intention to put that individual to chair another billion-dollar enterprise. The key to the whole thing is that he would be very useful to the Minister because the award of contracts is the attraction,” Rowley said.

“I dare this Government to appoint Rabindra Moonan as the chairman of the HDC, I dare you to do that.”

Rowley seemed surprised when Moonilal interrupted him by saying “he is appointed already”.

“You don’t have to dare nothing. Dare me again, dare me again, who else you want to appoint?” Moonilal asked.

When contacted, Moonan said he has not been officialy named the HDC chairman, but believed that it may be soon in coming as it has now been put in the public domain.

“I would like to tell Dr Rowley that it is the Government that makes board appointments, not the Oppostion,” Moonan said in a telephone interview after the Parliament sitting.


See? Get sent out one job into another. What on he CV?

[Jah Gol]

Panday used to do the same thing.

[Dutty]

Panday used to do the same thing.

Que?

[Jah Gol]

Panday used to do the same thing.

Que?

He recylced people on boards. There was a saying during his tenure 'You don't get fired for failure you get promoted'

[Bourbon]

Panday used to do the same thing.

Que?

He recylced people on boards. There was a saying during his tenure 'You don't get fired for failure you get promoted'

Nah de goal really is dat yuh get all de mistakes out yuh system so yuh should be good to go now.

[weary1969]

No trouble d fella on the coup commission say he CV eh 100% accurate. So once yuh name correck yuh CV ah rite.

[Dutty]

No trouble d fella on the coup commission say he CV eh 100% accurate. So once yuh name correck yuh CV ah rite.

wuhever happen to he...he still on the comission playin wrong and strong?

[weary1969]

No trouble d fella on the coup commission say he CV eh 100% accurate. So once yuh name correck yuh CV ah rite.

wuhever happen to he...he still on the comission playin wrong and strong?

Of course he still on d commission.

[Bourbon]

Yeah...as some people does say..."Is We Time Now."

If yuh eh like it....hol yuh tail.


http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/2-ex-CAL-members--on-new-HDC-board-211765251.html


2 ex-CAL members on new HDC board
By Ria Taitt Political Editor

Story Created: Jun 16, 2013 at 9:51 PM ECT

Story Updated: Jun 16, 2013 at 11:13 PM ECT

Not one but two members of the former Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board have been approved by Cabinet for membership of another State board, at the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

The Express has confirmed that Venosh Sagewan-Maraj is to join former CAL chairman Rabindra Moonan on the board of the HDC, just one month after being dismissed from the State-owned airline.

The Express obtained the Cabinet Minute-No. 1471 of May 23, which confirmed Cabinet’s endorsement of the membership of the new HDC board.

Most of the new members were on the previous board. They are Graig Davis, Gunness Sudama, Douglas Johnson, Ronald Carter and James Lambert. A representative of the Tobago House of Assembly will also form the board’s new membership.

Moonan, Sagewan-Maraj and Rodney Lamsee, an attorney, are the persons nominated. They, along with the six others, have been nominated for a period of two years with effect from the date of their instruments of appointment, according to the Cabinet note.

Moonan and Sagewan-Maraj were sacked along with the rest of the CAL Board (with the exception of Jamaican Denis Lalor) in mid-May.

 Finance Minister Larry Howai, in making the announcement, had stated that it was the issue of bad corporate governance at the board level which caused him to remove the board immediately.

Since word of Moonan’s imminent appointment first surfaced there has been criticism, especially from the Opposition, to this move.

 On Friday, PNM Senator Terrence Deyalsingh said he was ashamed and shocked by the Government’s decision.

However, the Government has stood firm.

 On Saturday, Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal told the Express that he was certain that the President (Anthony Carmona) would confirm Moonan as chairman and that there was no issue of a revocation.

 All board appointments are confirmed by the President.

At that time, there was controversy arising out of the action of CAL Deputy Chairman Mohan Jaikaran’s request for free tickets for a number of artistes to perform in a Mothers’ Day concert in Canada in which he was a promoter.

 Jaikaran and Moonan had also admitted to asking for an upgrade from economy to first class for a number of persons.

 Furthermore, CAL had found itself with increasing cash flow problems and consequently growing dependency on the Treasury to finance its operating costs.

Moonan was a former temporary senator when he was given the job of CAL chairman. Sagewan-Maraj was the former party organiser of the UNC, at the time of Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s landslide victory for the party’s political  leadership.