Yvonne Webb

Two mem­bers of the Pan Trin­ba­go cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive have re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, cit­ing an ab­sence of trans­paren­cy and in­tegri­ty as rea­sons for their de­par­ture. The two are Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore, the for­mer as­sis­tant sec­re­tary and Kei­th Simp­son a for­mer trustee. Ram­sey-Moore said she would re­veal all when she hosts a news con­fer­ence at Sil­ver Stars Pa­n­yard, Tra­garete Road, Port of Spain, to­mor­row.

In an im­me­di­ate re­sponse, pres­i­dent of Pan Trin­ba­go, Kei­th Di­az, warned that peo­ple must be care­ful what they said be­cause lit­i­ga­tion could fol­low. He said a spe­cial meet­ing had been card­ed for 10 am on Sun­day at Scherzan­do Pa­n­yard, Evans Street, Curepe, "where we will re­veal all that we have to re­veal."

By let­ter, dat­ed Ju­ly 4 and ad­dressed to Di­az, Ram­sey-Moore said for the past two years she had con­tin­u­ous­ly ex­pressed con­cerns on the mat­ter of trans­paren­cy and in­tegri­ty in deal­ings un­der the name of Pan Trin­ba­go Inc. She said she had ex­pend­ed not on­ly per­son­al sac­ri­fice but an enor­mous amount of ef­fort to en­sure the busi­ness of the or­gan­i­sa­tion was one which she could de­fend.

How­ev­er, she ex­plained, in spite of her con­tri­bu­tion, the ex­ec­u­tive had been op­er­at­ing with a lack of trust. Simp­son, in his res­ig­na­tion, al­so wrote about rum­blings and dis­sat­is­fac­tion of the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship over the present ex­ec­u­tive. In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day evening, Ram­sey-Moore said de­ci­sions had been tak­en and projects em­barked up­on with­out cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive ap­proval.

One such project, she iden­ti­fied as Pan Trin­ba­go Inc's new sub­sidiary, The Africa Trinidad and To­ba­go Steel­pan De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd, which was sched­uled to be launched yes­ter­day evening at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain. Ram­sey-Moore said the cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive gave no ap­proval for the set­ting up of such a com­pa­ny.

She al­so ques­tioned the pay­ment of a con­sul­tant fee of $420,728.30 for man­ag­ing the "Greens" for Panora­ma 2012. Di­az de­nied this al­le­ga­tion. He said: "That is not fac­tu­al. I don't want to go tongue-to-tongue in the me­dia to fight Pan Trin­ba­go's bat­tles. I can­not re­veal cer­tain things in the pub­lic. "I have to re­port to the mem­ber­ship of Pan Trin­ba­go that is why I called a spe­cial meet­ing for Sun­day and I will bring all in­for­ma­tion then."

Ram­sey-Moore al­so said she did not want to re­sign but felt she was hit­ting her head against a wall. "Af­ter a statu­to­ry meet­ing on Ju­ly 3, I thought it was best for me to re­move my­self from the ex­ec­u­tive be­cause I did not want to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for any­thing I would not have known about," she added.