New­ly in­stalled WASA CEO, Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day has of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed his du­ties. 

In a state­ment to­day, WASA said he did so on a Sun­day, tak­ing the ini­tia­tive to do a com­pre­hen­sive tour of the WASA Head Of­fice and en­gage with staff at the util­i­ty’s call cen­tre. 

Dur­ing his vis­it, Hal­l­i­day em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and his com­mit­ment to an in­clu­sive ap­proach to trans­form­ing the WASA. 

“I be­lieve that the suc­cess of our util­i­ty lies in the ded­i­ca­tion and ex­per­tise of our team,” Hal­l­i­day said.

“By start­ing my jour­ney here on a Sun­day, I want­ed to demon­strate my com­mit­ment to un­der­stand­ing our op­er­a­tions and con­nect­ing with our staff from day one.  Their hard work and pas­sion are the back­bone of our ser­vice to the coun­try. To­geth­er, we can fos­ter an en­vi­ron­ment where every­one feels val­ued, mo­ti­vat­ed, and em­pow­ered to con­tribute to our mis­sion of pro­vid­ing safe and re­li­able Wa­ter and Waste­water ser­vices to  Trinidad and To­ba­go," he said.

WASA said Hal­l­i­day has ex­hib­it­ed a clear fo­cus on em­ploy­ee wel­fare as a crit­i­cal fac­tor in ser­vice de­liv­ery. 

Af­ter an im­promp­tu vis­it to the Kew Place lo­ca­tion pre­vi­ous­ly, where he saw and heard first-hand the con­di­tions and con­cerns of the team mem­bers there, he re­turned last evening to en­sure and was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised at the quick turn­around of the phys­i­cal con­di­tions at that lo­ca­tion.  

WASA said the Board of Di­rec­tors is con­fi­dent that Hal­l­i­day’s lead­er­ship will guide the Au­thor­i­ty to­ward a fu­ture of growth and ex­cel­lence.  

"As the Au­thor­i­ty em­barks on this new chap­ter, the or­ga­ni­za­tion re­mains com­mit­ted to its mis­sion of de­liv­er­ing safe, re­li­able, and sus­tain­able Wa­ter and Waste­water ser­vices to all stake­hold­ers," WASA said.