Chrisal­ston Belle has been ap­point­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion's (T&TEC) new Gen­er­al Man­ag­er. He will re­place cur­rent GM, Curvis Fran­cois, who re­tired from the com­mis­sion in No­vem­ber af­ter 38 years of ser­vice.

Ac­cord­ing to a T&TEC re­lease, Belle is an Elec­tri­cal En­gi­neer who holds a BSc in Elec­tri­cal and Com­put­er En­gi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies. He was con­firmed as an En­gi­neer in 1994, hav­ing grad­u­at­ed from T&TEC’s two-year En­gi­neer-in-Train­ing pro­gramme.

The re­lease added that dur­ing his 32-year ca­reer, Belle "held se­nior po­si­tions in the Trans­mis­sion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion Di­vi­sions and was last re­spon­si­ble for T&TEC’s Tech­ni­cal Di­vi­sion, hav­ing been ap­point­ed as Chief Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cer (CTO) in 2020."

In this po­si­tion, Belle di­rect­ed the op­er­a­tions of all Dis­tri­b­u­tion Ar­eas, Pub­lic Light­ing, Trans­mis­sion De­vel­op­ment and En­gi­neer­ing Ser­vices, Trans­mis­sion Main­te­nance, Sys­tem Con­trol and Gen­er­a­tion In­ter­face, Sys­tem Plan­ning and Re­search, Civ­il En­gi­neer­ing and Fa­cil­i­ties Man­age­ment, Dis­tri­b­u­tion Plan­ning and Sup­port, Pro­tec­tion and SCA­DA, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and the Cove Pow­er Sta­tion.

It added: "As Mr. Belle as­sumes of­fice, the Board of Com­mis­sion­ers take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to ac­knowl­edge the con­tri­bu­tion of the out­go­ing Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Mr. Fran­cois, who served T&TEC for 38 years. We thank him for his ser­vice and con­tri­bu­tion to the Com­mis­sion and, by ex­ten­sion, the coun­try and wish him a hap­py and ful­fill­ing re­tire­ment."