Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

Yet an­oth­er Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (Sportt) of­fi­cial has called it a day. Com­pa­ny cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Mau­rice Valere ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion on Tues­day, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect. Valere was re­spon­si­ble for record­ing the min­utes of the ex­tra­or­di­nary meet­ing of the com­pa­ny's board held on Au­gust 18, when for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Er­rol Ash­by was dis­missed. Ash­by, ac­cord­ing to the min­utes, was dis­missed, de­spite ob­jec­tions from the board, for fail­ing to car­ry out di­rec­tives by Min­is­ter of Sports Anil Roberts.

The min­is­ter, the min­utes record­ed, in­struct­ed the board to ter­mi­nate busi­ness de­vel­op­ment man­ag­er Steven Joseph and ap­point new re­cruit Shoma Per­sad to the post. Per­sad, the min­utes stat­ed, was the min­is­ter's pick for the job. The min­is­ter has since de­nied the al­le­ga­tion claim­ing that Ash­by was dis­missed for breach of con­tract as it re­lates to the ac­qui­si­tion of a BMW X3 for his own use, and al­so for un­der per­for­mance. Mean­while, board mem­ber Se­bastien Padding­ton was ap­point­ed chair­man of Sportt on Wednes­day at a spe­cial board meet­ing.

Padding­ton re­places Rhett Chee Ping who re­signed fol­low­ing the Ash­by saga. Chee Ping ad­mit­ted to sanc­tion­ing the lease of the lux­u­ry ve­hi­cle. Valere is the third Sportt of­fi­cial to de­part the or­gan­i­sa­tion with­in the last month. In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, for­mer deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Con­gress of Peo­ple Robert May­ers warned that new pol­i­tics may be a fig­ment of the imag­i­na­tion. Briefly com­ment­ing on the is­sue, May­ers said: "The stan­dard of new pol­i­tics seems to be eva­sive. I am just look­ing on."