The founder and now pres­i­dent-elect, Abrahim Ali of the San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion who has pre­vi­ous­ly served in that ca­pac­i­ty sev­er­al terms, will once again car­ry the man­tle for the 2023/2024 tenure.

In a news re­lease on Wednes­day, the board said it has en­vi­sioned hit­ting the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in a way for­ward to re-es­tab­lish and cater to im­prove the grow­ing de­mands of the busi­ness own­er in the com­mu­ni­ty as well to give as­sis­tance and bridge gaps with­in the com­mu­ni­ty’s so­cial is­sues.

The 15-mem­ber board was elect­ed at the As­so­ci­a­tion’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing at Hi­malaya Club, San Juan on Mon­day.

The new di­rec­tors are:

• Abrahim Ali – Pres­i­dent

• Dr. Dionne Mitchell- Vice Pres­i­dent

• Ka­ri­na Nanan – Sec­re­tary

• Michael Ma­haraj- Trea­sur­er

• Ro­han Ram­nath-Trustee

• Esau Ho­sein-Trustee

Board Di­rec­tors

• Rai Ja­mu­nar

• Im­ran Khan

• Kev­ern Dass

• Kishal Bas­deo

• Shiv­an Bhag­gan

• Mel­ony Mitchell-Slocum

• Zelisa Boodoos­ingh Ru­pani

• Ami­rah Ho­sein

• Michael Jo­gee

In De­cem­ber 2022, the SB­JA was forced to call ear­ly elec­tions as sev­er­al di­rec­tors re­signed from their po­si­tions–Pres­i­dent Ja­son Roach; Vice Pres­i­dent Kishal Bas­deo; Trea­sur­er Joash Kissooon; Di­rec­tor–Net­work­ing & Events Neela Ramb­harose; Di­rec­tor–Mem­ber­ship Michelle Bap­tiste; and Di­rec­tor–Dig­i­tal Strat­e­gy Dale De Mille.

It was re­port­ed there has been in­ter­nal fight­ing in the or­gan­i­sa­tion which was con­firmed by Roach to Guardian Me­dia back then. Roach sub­se­quent­ly re­signed as pres­i­dent.

“It is a mat­ter of cor­po­rate gov­er­nance where one par­tic­u­lar ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber does not be­lieve that he should fol­low the cor­po­rate gov­er­nance and rules of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, pri­mar­i­ly when it per­tains to sig­na­to­ries on the ac­counts of the or­gan­i­sa­tion,” Roach added. “Once an or­gan­i­sa­tion starts like that, I can­not be part of that.”

He said his state­ments would rep­re­sent the views of oth­er board di­rec­tors who have re­signed.

The board of 17 di­rec­tors was ap­point­ed to of­fice in 2021.