New WASA CEO Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day met with Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Deryck Richard­son on Tues­day to dis­cuss crit­i­cal safe­ty, se­cu­ri­ty, and in­fra­struc­ture is­sues af­fect­ing of­fi­cers.

Richard­son de­scribed the hour-long meet­ing as sat­is­fac­to­ry, not­ing that Hal­l­i­day pro­vid­ed di­rect con­tact num­bers for him­self and oth­er mem­bers of the ex­ec­u­tive team to en­sure seam­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

While no time­line was giv­en for re­solv­ing the con­cerns, Richard­son ex­pressed op­ti­mism about the new lead­er­ship ap­proach.

Hal­l­i­day, who al­so met with Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Leroy Bap­tiste, em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of col­lab­o­ra­tion and trans­paren­cy as part of WASA’s on­go­ing trans­for­ma­tion.

Ear­li­er that day, Hal­l­i­day in­tro­duced the new ex­ec­u­tive lead­er­ship team dur­ing a tour of sev­er­al lo­ca­tions across Trinidad.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from WASA, Hal­l­i­day ad­dressed staff and un­der­scored the im­por­tance of team­work and open di­a­logue, en­cour­ag­ing feed­back as a key el­e­ment in cre­at­ing a pro­duc­tive work­place.

Hal­l­i­day al­so re­it­er­at­ed that every em­ploy­ee plays a crit­i­cal role in ful­fill­ing WASA’s man­date to de­liv­er wa­ter and waste­water ser­vices to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Hal­l­i­day called for staff to re­main res­olute in the face of fi­nan­cial chal­lenges and the im­pacts of cli­mate change, stress­ing the need for de­ter­mi­na­tion to achieve WASA’s goal of pro­vid­ing a 24/7 wa­ter sup­ply. On his third day in of­fice, Hal­l­i­day vis­it­ed the South Re­gion­al Of­fice and toured the San Fer­nan­do Boost­er Sta­tion and the Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

WASA said em­ploy­ees at both sites briefed the new CEO on op­er­a­tions and dis­cussed steps to sup­port WASA’s trans­for­ma­tion ef­forts.

Ef­forts to reach Bap­tiste for com­ment proved fu­tile.

Hal­l­i­day be­gan du­ties on Sun­day.