The fol­low­ing is an of­fi­cial state­ment from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, con­firm­ing that Gabriel Faria will re­tain his po­si­tion as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Cham­ber.

The Board of Di­rec­tors of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce wish­es to ad­vise that it has met to­day with its CEO, Mr. Gabriel Faria to dis­cuss mat­ters re­lat­ed to re­cent news and so­cial me­dia cov­er­age.

The Board is of the view and Mr. Faria agrees, that he should al­ways be mind­ful of his role and oblig­a­tions as the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the TT Cham­ber. As a re­sult of the dis­cus­sions, the Board has de­ter­mined that Mr. Faria will con­tin­ue in his cur­rent po­si­tion as CEO of the TT Cham­ber.

Over the past 3 years Mr. Faria has helped to build a strong and ef­fec­tive Cham­ber of Com­merce, as a cred­i­ble ad­vo­cate for our mem­bers and the wider busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

The Board would like to reaf­firm the role of the TT Cham­ber, as an ad­vo­ca­cy body com­mit­ted to the high­est stan­dards of en­ter­prise, to pur­sue col­lab­o­ra­tive and con­struc­tive di­a­logue with the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the busi­ness sec­tor.

As the voice of busi­ness, the TT Cham­ber will con­tin­ue to act as a cham­pi­on of busi­ness and to ad­vo­cate on be­half of the pri­vate sec­tor. We re­main in­de­pen­dent in the pur­suit of mat­ters crit­i­cal to busi­ness and re­main deeply com­mit­ted to work­ing with gov­ern­ment and oth­er stake­hold­ers to make the bold moves nec­es­sary to trans­form our econ­o­my in the na­tion­al in­ter­est.

The TT Cham­ber is of the be­lief that strong busi­ness­es are the foun­da­tion of a pros­per­ous T&T where we can im­prove the stan­dard of liv­ing for all the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Mr. Reyaz Ahamad
Pres­i­dent - Trinidad & To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try & Com­merce
On be­half of the Board of Di­rec­tors