Shane Su­perville

Weeks af­ter she re­port­ed­ly re­fused to re­sign as pres­i­dent of the UWI Stu­dent Guild, Kir­by Moses was re­called and the po­si­tion was de­clared va­cant.

A source from the UWI Guild con­firmed that at a spe­cial gen­er­al meet­ing last Fri­day, a pe­ti­tion with 229 sig­na­tures was pre­sent­ed.

The re­sults of a vote held among the 323 stu­dents in at­ten­dance showed that 83 per cent vot­ed to re­call Moses’ ap­point­ment. The de­ci­sion was sup­port­ed by the UWI cam­pus ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Moses did not re­spond to calls for com­ment up to late yes­ter­day.

In an Au­gust 9 no­tice, the UWI Guild re­port­ed that a mo­tion of no con­fi­dence was filed against Moses, af­ter she al­leged­ly ig­nored calls to hold a by-elec­tion for the po­si­tion of Guild trea­sur­er.

Moses re­port­ed­ly ap­point­ed her broth­er, Kemp Moses as the Guild’s trea­sur­er, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Liam Mo­hammed, ear­li­er this year. Al­though she lost the vote of no con­fi­dence, Moses re­fused to re­sign.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, how­ev­er, Moses ques­tioned the le­git­i­ma­cy of the mo­tion and claimed it in­volved non-mem­bers.

Re­spond­ing to calls for an au­dit in­to the Guild’s ac­counts, she said, “As it re­lates to the state of the Guild, we are in des­per­ate need of au­dit­ing in that place: au­dit of the guild ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fice, au­dit of the Guild of Stu­dents, au­dit of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, es­pe­cial­ly those who deal with the port­fo­lio of the Guild of Stu­dents.”

Kemp Moses dis­missed claims of nepo­tism and said his sis­ter played no role in his ap­point­ment as trea­sur­er.

“When there’s a res­ig­na­tion, there’s a process to fill va­can­cies and in the process, you can do a by-elec­tion or you can ap­point. Our ap­point­ment process is ap­point­ment by in­ter­view,” he said.

“Four peo­ple were in­ter­viewed, and they chose me... She did not choose me, so I don’t see how there is any con­flict of in­ter­est if she had no vot­ing pow­ers when I was cho­sen.”