The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of twen­ty-four (24) as­sis­tant di­rec­tors.

In a state­ment by WASA, it was said that, "In their new roles, they will sup­port the Di­rec­tors in ad­vanc­ing the on­go­ing trans­for­ma­tion of the Au­thor­i­ty, en­sur­ing the de­liv­ery of high-qual­i­ty ser­vices to our stake­hold­ers while em­brac­ing in­no­v­a­tive prac­tices and sus­tain­able so­lu­tions."

The new team will of­fi­cial­ly as­sume du­ties on De­cem­ber 1. The mem­bers are as fol­lows:

-Wa­ter Man­age­ment:

John Hack­ett - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plant Main­te­nance (North­east)

Safiyyah Ab­dul­lah - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plants, Wa­ter Sourc­ing, Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion (North­east)

Mark Cyrus - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plant Main­te­nance (North­west)

Ronald Ramkalawan - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plants, Wa­ter Sourc­ing, Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion (North­west)

Richard Ali - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plant Main­te­nance (South)

Sasha Roop­nar­ine - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plants, Wa­ter Sourc­ing, Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion (South)

Adesh Sookdeo - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plants, Wa­ter Sourc­ing, Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion (Cen­tral)

Aarif Mo­hamed - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plant Main­te­nance (Cen­tral)

Tariq Wa­di - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plant Main­te­nance (To­ba­go)

Col­in Orr - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Plants, Wa­ter Sourc­ing, Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion (To­ba­go)

-Tech­nol­o­gy, Fu­ture Sys­tems & Sus­tain­abil­i­ty:

An­dron­i­cus Williams - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, ICT Au­toma­tion and Con­trol

Pa­t­ri­na Ab­dool - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Cus­tomer Re­la­tion­ship and Brand

Man­age­ment

Steve Git­tens - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Busi­ness Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment

-Peo­ple, Trans­for­ma­tion & Cen­tral Ser­vices:

Ali­cia Brath­waite - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Re­gion­al Part­ner­ships

Mar­sha Fred­er­ick-Thomas - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Peo­ple and Trans­for­ma­tion

Dex­ter Carr - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Cen­tral Ser­vices

-Pro­cure­ment:

Cindy Mar­tin-Faustin - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Pro­cure­ment

-Le­gal/Gen­er­al Coun­sel and Cor­po­rate Sec­re­tary:

Maitri Ram­lo­gan - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Lit­i­ga­tion and Ar­bi­tra­tion

Sta­cy Enci­nas - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Land and Prop­er­ty Man­age­ment

-Cor­po­rate Fi­nance:

Rachelle Wilkie- As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Busi­ness Sup­port, Risk and Fi­nan­cial

Con­trols

Shan­tul James- As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor, Ac­count­ing Op­er­a­tions and Trea­sury

-Project Man­age­ment Of­fice:

Shawn Sa­landy - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor / Projects Man­ag­er (Im­ple­men­ta­tion)

Kevon Cor­bett - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor / Projects Man­ag­er (Plan­ning)

Harve Williams - As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor / Projects Man­ag­er (To­ba­go)

WASA CEO, Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day wel­comed the group of As­sis­tant Di­rec­tors with en­thu­si­asm, “Their ex­per­tise and vi­sion will be in­valu­able as we nav­i­gate the chal­lenges and op­por­tu­ni­ties ahead. To­geth­er, we will con­tin­ue to trans­form the Au­thor­i­ty in­to a for­ward-think­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion that pri­or­i­tizes ser­vice ex­cel­lence, em­ploy­ee well-be­ing and en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship.”

The ap­point­ments come at a piv­otal time for the Au­thor­i­ty as the or­ga­ni­za­tion con­tin­ues a com­pre­hen­sive trans­for­ma­tion strat­e­gy aimed at mod­ern­iz­ing in­fra­struc­ture, en­hanc­ing ser­vice de­liv­ery, and re­build­ing the trust of stake­hold­ers.