There is a deaf­en­ing si­lence from the ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment of the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce To­ba­go’s Di­vi­sion on the res­ig­na­tion of vice chair­man Mar­tin George.

George, an at­tor­ney who had held the po­si­tion since March, an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion via Face­book on Tues­day night.

George had been giv­en the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of lead­ing the man­age­ment team af­ter its chair­man, Claude Benoit, was abrupt­ly re­moved from of­fice while on va­ca­tion last month.

In an­nounc­ing his de­par­ture from the Cham­ber on so­cial me­dia, George said he had sent cor­re­spon­dence ear­li­er in the day to the busi­ness as­so­ci­a­tion.

He said the de­mands of his of­fice had pre­vent­ed him from de­vot­ing the time re­quired to the post of vice chair­man.

“(It) ap­pears to be cycli­cal and in my re­spect­ful view counter-pro­duc­tive, in­stead of be­ing for­ward mov­ing and pro­gres­sive.”

How­ev­er, George said he will con­tin­ue serv­ing To­ba­go and ad­vo­cate on its be­half through pub­lic ap­pear­ances.

Reached for a com­ment on George’s res­ig­na­tion, ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment com­mit­tee mem­ber Di­anne Hadad said be­cause it was “an in­ter­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion is­sue” she would not com­ment.

Benoit, the cham­ber’s for­mer chair­man who was re­moved from of­fice for al­leged ab­sen­teeism and non-com­mu­ni­ca­tion, mean­while told To­ba­go To­day he “can­not com­ment on the is­sue at this time.”

George was al­so con­tact­ed for fur­ther com­ment on his de­ci­sion. How­ev­er, he said his Face­book state­ment “is quite com­pre­hen­sive and ex­plains every­thing at this time.”

To­ba­go To­day un­der­stands the Trinidad Cham­ber has met on the sit­u­a­tion and will work with the To­ba­go ex­ec­u­tive to find a res­o­lu­tion to the mat­ter as soon as pos­si­ble.