A res­ig­na­tion let­ter from for­mer Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor and board chair­man Lennox Sealy stat­ed he re­signed due to per­son­al cir­cum­stances.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les read the let­ter in Par­lia­ment re­spond­ing to a query from the Op­po­si­tion’s Rudy In­dars­ingh.

The Ju­ly 8 let­ter to Gon­za­les in­formed him of Sealy’s res­ig­na­tion from the po­si­tions ef­fec­tive that date.

Sealy said he was ap­pre­cia­tive of the ex­pe­ri­ence and thanked Gon­za­les for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to serve in those po­si­tions. It end­ed “I wish you all the best in the trans­for­ma­tion of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.”

Gon­za­les re­peat­ed the let­ter when In­dars­ingh asked if Sealey was “con­struc­tive­ly dis­missed” and the res­ig­na­tion was a cov­er-up. On who was in charge at WASA, Gon­za­les said a board and ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment.

Gon­za­les de­tailed how the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) crews dealt with out­ages in ar­eas af­fect­ed by Thurs­day’s in­clement weath­er.

In the East there were 114 out­ages, in the North 25, four in To­ba­go, 20 in Cen­tral and 15 in South.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is said so far no ap­pli­ca­tions were re­ceived for emer­gency re­lief aris­ing from the bad weath­er.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh clashed with Op­po­si­tion Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles who asked why the el­der­ly at sev­er­al homes in his Na­pari­ma con­stituen­cy weren’t vac­ci­nat­ed.

Deyals­ingh said con­sent was need­ed from a child or guardian of the el­der­ly. At the start of the vac­ci­na­tion ex­er­cise, he said five Na­pari­ma homes were quar­an­tined and couldn’t be done.

Charles said he was told con­sent was giv­en and ques­tioned why they weren’t vac­ci­nat­ed.

Deyals­ingh chal­lenged Charles, “If you have that in­for­ma­tion, give us! Don’t sit on it! I’ll be more than hap­py to send a mo­bile vac­ci­na­tion team!“

Charles said the St Vin­cent de Paul and Jaycee Mc­Don­ald homes were af­fect­ed.

Deyals­ingh said if a home has a pos­i­tive COVID pa­tient, they can’t be vac­ci­nat­ed for three months and the homes can al­so call the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).

While telling Charles to “seek ad­vice be­fore em­bar­rass­ing your­self in the pub­lic do­main” he at the same time, told Charles “We can work across the aisle in­stead of the usu­al UNC tantrums.”