Dr In­shan Meahjohn has ex­it­ed his post as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of iGovTT af­ter his con­tract was not re­newed.Meahjohn, who served at the iGovTT of­fice in Port of Spain from De­cem­ber 2022 to No­vem­ber 2025, was re­port­ed­ly es­cort­ed from the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s of­fices on his fi­nal day.

While his con­tract had for­mal­ly ex­pired, sources told Guardian Me­dia he was pre­vi­ous­ly ad­vised that it would be re­newed, a com­mit­ment that was ul­ti­mate­ly not ho­n­oured.

Con­tact­ed on LinkedIn yes­ter­day, and asked about the re­ports that he was es­cort­ed the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s of­fices, Meahjohn said, “Many thanks for your ques­tion. There is no is­sue as my three-year con­tract sim­ply end­ed, and on good terms.”

And in a LinkedIn post pub­lished af­ter his de­par­ture, Meahjohn struck a con­cil­ia­to­ry tone, re­flect­ing pos­i­tive­ly on his tenure.
“What a won­der­ful three years it has been as CEO of iGovTT. I was pleased to serve with deep grat­i­tude and pride,” he wrote.
“It has been an ho­n­our to serve along­side the Board, a ded­i­cat­ed man­age­ment team and pas­sion­ate staff who con­sis­tent­ly rose to every chal­lenge with com­mit­ment and in­tegri­ty. To­geth­er, we worked to strength­en dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion in the ser­vice of the cit­i­zens.”

He high­light­ed key achieve­ments dur­ing his tenure, in­clud­ing the launch of Anan­si.tt, the coun­try’s first na­tion­al dig­i­tal as­sis­tant, and ex­pressed con­fi­dence that the or­gan­i­sa­tion would con­tin­ue to build on the foun­da­tion laid over the past three years.

Sev­er­al at­tempts to con­tact Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Do­minic Smith for com­ment on the rea­sons be­hind the non-re­new­al of Meahjohn’s con­tract were un­suc­cess­ful up to press time.

Meahjohn’s de­par­ture comes amid a broad­er wave of changes across State boards and ex­ec­u­tive lead­er­ship since the UNC Gov­ern­ment took of­fice. Be­tween June and De­cem­ber, more than a dozen se­nior of­fi­cials in­clud­ing board mem­bers, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cers and even the Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor, have been dis­missed, placed on pre-re­tire­ment leave, re­signed, had ap­point­ments re­voked or en­tered in­to mu­tu­al sep­a­ra­tion agree­ments.

Over the past sev­en months, lead­er­ship changes have oc­curred at a wide cross-sec­tion of State en­ter­pris­es and in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), First Cit­i­zens Bank (FCB), Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA), Na­tion­al En­er­gy, Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd (HP­CL), the Cen­tral Bank, Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL), Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Ltd (TPHL), Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd (PPG­PL), Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) and the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank).
Of the 16 of­fi­cials who de­part­ed State com­pa­nies fol­low­ing the change in ad­min­is­tra­tion, five were re­tained or ap­point­ed un­der Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s gov­ern­ment. Those in­clude Jee­van Joseph, Dr Ah­mad Khan, Romel Lal­loo, Dr Randy Ra­mad­har Singh and Cur­tis Den­nie.
The scale and pace of the lead­er­ship turnover have drawn close at­ten­tion from the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly amid con­cerns about con­ti­nu­ity, cor­po­rate gov­er­nance and in­sti­tu­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty at key State en­ter­pris­es dur­ing a pe­ri­od of eco­nom­ic ad­just­ment and pol­i­cy tran­si­tion.

—An­drea Perez-Sobers