Tony Fras­er

A cou­ple years ago there was a rag­ing ar­gu­ment about re­cruit­ment process­es and the com­po­si­tion of pan­els which se­lect per­sons for en­try in­to the pub­licly fund­ed med­ical school of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies. Then there was the charge by UNC MP, Dr Tim Gopeesingh, who claimed that "eth­nic cleans­ing" was tak­ing place in the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Sim­i­lar im­bal­ances al­so ex­ist with­in the le­gal pro­fes­sion, in the teach­ing pro­fes­sion, in­deed in cab­i­nets past and present. There are al­so grow­ing gen­der im­bal­ances in al­most every pro­fes­sion. The so­ci­ety should be ex­am­in­ing all of these im­bal­ances and sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly seek­ing to re­dress them.

One ques­tion im­me­di­ate­ly raised is the abil­i­ty of the PSC to now hold to­geth­er giv­en the very dif­fer­ent po­si­tions tak­en on the is­sues put for­ward by the three mem­bers, the chair­man, and the still to be known po­si­tion of Com­mis­sion­er Khan.

The mat­ter now falls with­in the port­fo­lio of the Pres­i­dent to de­cide if Mo­hammed and the Com­mis­sion should con­tin­ue to hold of­fice.