Sec­re­tary for Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment Dr Agatha Car­ring­ton has hint­ed at her ex­it from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

At yes­ter­day’s the Post Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil news con­fer­ence, she gave an ac­count of her stew­ard­ship over the past three years.

There had been calls for her to re­sign the po­si­tion due to poor man­age­ment. There was al­so a pe­ti­tion with more than 3,000 sig­na­tures, but Chief Sec­re­tary Kelvin Charles ig­nored the nu­mer­ous re­quests.

How­ev­er, with the change of lead­er­ship in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil, Charles will step down as Chief Sec­re­tary by the end of April this year while new­ly elect­ed po­lit­i­cal leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine will be sworn in as a coun­cil­lor on March 1.

The ma­jor­i­ty body in the THA is al­lowed three coun­cil­lors, so au­to­mat­i­cal­ly one of the three will be sacked.

Sec­re­tary for Tourism, Cul­ture and Trans­porta­tion Na­dine Stew­art-Phillips, Sec­re­tary for the Di­vi­sion of In­fra­struc­ture, Quar­ries and the En­vi­ron­ment Kwe­si Des Vi­gnes and Dr Car­ring­ton are cur­rent­ly coun­cil­lors.

Al­though David­son-Ce­les­tine said there will be con­sul­ta­tions to dis­cuss the new coun­cil­lors, sources said Stew­art-Phillips will be the first to be sent pack­ing, as David­son-Ce­les­tine has ex­pe­ri­ence in tourism. Guardian Me­dia al­so un­der­stands that for­mer THA Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus, who sup­port­ed David­son-Ce­les­tine in the runoff round of the in­ter­nal elec­tions, will be sworn in as a coun­cil­lor, while new­ly elect­ed Deputy Chair­man and for­mer THA Coun­cil­lor De­on Isaac is al­so be­ing tout­ed.

Car­ring­ton said with the knowl­edge that there will be changes to coun­cil­lors in the THA, she has no prob­lem re­sign­ing

“I don’t ex­pect to serve my en­tire term, I don’t ex­pect that, but let me just say that we come from dif­fer­ent places. I sat in an­oth­er place the day be­fore I came here. I am a con­sum­mate pro­fes­sion­al, I am well trained in my area and I can work in any area that I am called to do, so I have no dif­fi­cul­ty in terms of that.

“So there are three coun­cil­lors and if I am asked di­rect­ly whether or if I have to re­sign, I have no dif­fi­cul­ty in do­ing so,” she said.

Asked to grade her per­for­mance as Sec­re­tary for Health, Dr Car­ring­ton said: “I rate my­self 8.5. I have not been able to do some of the things that I want­ed to have done in the time, but there will not be time to do so.”

She praised Chief Sec­re­tary Charles, who an­nounced that he will be step­ping down from the post, de­clar­ing that his lead­er­ship had de­rived pos­i­tive re­sults. She said she would con­tin­ue to give him her sup­port.

“If the Chief Sec­re­tary in his in­formed view felt that the cir­cum­stances are such that he must re­sign, it is his pre­rog­a­tive so to do. I have worked with the Chief Sec­re­tary for the past three years, a per­son and hu­man be­ing in whom we are well pleased and I am well pleased and will con­tin­ue to sup­port him through whichev­er sit­u­a­tion and cir­cum­stance that he is go­ing through,” Car­ring­ton said.

“On a scale of one to ten, 8.5, 8.75, 9. Our re­sults that we have de­clared and the re­sults that we have achieved are in part—are in a large part—based on his lead­er­ship.”