There is in­creas­ing pres­sure on for­mer Miss Uni­verse Janelle Pen­ny Com­mis­siong from mem­bers of her own board at Tourism Trinidad Lim­it­ed with board mem­bers threat­en­ing to re­sign and to bring a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion against the com­pa­ny’s chair­man.

Sev­er­al di­rec­tors Guardian Me­dia spoke to have ex­pressed un­ease over the fir­ing of the com­pa­ny’s for­mer CEO Camille Camp­bell and at least one di­rec­tor has de­scribed the dis­missal as “taint­ed,” de­mand­ing that the wider Board be pro­vid­ed with the as­sess­ment used to dis­miss Camp­bell.

Camp­bell, a for­mer TSTT mar­ket­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tive, was fired on Mon­day by Com­mis­siong, six months af­ter tak­ing the job. The fir­ing of Camp­bell was the cul­mi­na­tion of a se­ries of in­ci­dents at Tourism Trinidad, the com­pa­ny formed to mar­ket and pro­mote Trinidad’s tourism prod­uct af­ter the clo­sure of the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny in 2017.

Camp­bell’s three-month pro­ba­tion was unan­i­mous­ly ex­tend­ed on April 3, due to what Com­mis­siong de­scribed as “un­sat­is­fac­to­ry per­for­mance.”

How­ev­er, un­like the ex­ten­sion of the pro­ba­tion­ary pe­ri­od, Mon­day’s de­ci­sion to fire the CEO was not unan­i­mous.

In a strong­ly-word­ed let­ter to Heather McIn­tosh-Si­mon, the head of the Tourism Trinidad’s HR Com­mit­tee, one Board mem­ber com­plained that the Board nev­er re­ceived the re­port from HRC for the first and sec­ond as­sess­ments of Camp­bell which led to her fir­ing.

She wrote to McIn­tosh-Si­mon: “Please note that said re­ports on the as­sess­ments were nev­er pro­vid­ed to the gen­er­al Board for re­view and con­sid­er­a­tion. Based on same, it high­lights the im­prop­er ac­tion which was tak­en in the dis­missal of the then CEO.”

The Board mem­ber is al­so de­mand­ing that McIn­tosh-Si­mon pro­vide the cost of the IR con­sul­tant (Fe­lix Pear­son) who was hired in the fir­ing of Camp­bell.

“A de­tailed par­tic­u­lar­i­sa­tion of the monies to the IR con­sul­tant; in­clu­sive of the con­tract and or agree­ment signed by the said con­sul­tant; the dates and mat­ters which the HRC re­quest­ed his ad­vice; and the to­tal cost paid (and pend­ing) for his ser­vices.

Con­tact­ed on Thurs­day, McIn­tosh-Si­mon re­ferred all in­quiries to the Chair­man, while Tourism Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell said: “Those mat­ters are mat­ters with­in the purview of the Board and the Board took the de­ci­sion. So any ques­tions on the mat­ter should be di­rect­ed to the Chair­man of the Board.”

Since the com­pa­ny has been formed it has over­seen the con­tin­ued fall in tourist ar­rivals to this coun­try and this has, in part, led to Com­mis­siong butting heads with for­mer Tourism Min­ster Sham­fa Cud­joe and present Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell.

In let­ters that Guardian Me­dia have ob­tained, there are sev­er­al ex­changes with the Min­is­ter ac­cus­ing Com­mis­siong of ig­nor­ing Cab­i­net di­rec­tive and ig­nor­ing his di­rec­tive.

Com­mis­siong has coun­tered that she does not have to fol­low some of the Min­is­ter’s in­struc­tions in­clud­ing his de­mand on June 6 not to fire any of the em­ploy­ees at Tourism Trinidad.