On Fri­day Ju­ly 12th 2013, the Ho­n­ourable Dr. Ru­pert Grif­fith, Min­is­ter of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy pre­sent­ed In­stru­ments of Ap­point­ment to mem­bers of the new Board of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) who were in­stalled for a two year term.

This two-year pe­ri­od does not ap­ply to the chair­man of the board, Sel­by Wil­son, whose term in of­fice is three years and was sworn in on Feb­ru­ary 1st 2011 at TATT's Barataria of­fice.

Min­is­ter Grif­fith in his ad­dress, en­cour­aged the board "to pur­sue in­creased in­no­v­a­tive­ness, cre­ativ­i­ty and good gov­er­nance" as TATT con­tin­ues its pur­suit of the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try's telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and broad­cast­ing sec­tors.

In his re­marks, Wil­son out­lined a num­ber of crit­i­cal ini­tia­tives now en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion of TATT in­clud­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of num­ber porta­bil­i­ty and a third mo­bile tele­phone provider as well as im­ple­men­ta­tion of an In­ter­net Ex­change Point.