Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior foot­ball coach Den­nis Lawrence was on Sat­ur­day fired with im­me­di­ate ef­fect by the new board of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA).

His sack­ing was one of few key de­ci­sions made by the board af­ter its first of­fi­cial meet­ing since the William Wal­lace-led ad­min­is­tra­tion as­sumed of­fice on No­vem­ber 24.

Lawrence had been un­der fire fol­low­ing a string of poor per­for­mances by the So­ca War­riors dur­ing the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup and the Na­tions League. How­ev­er, he re­fused to step down and sur­vived un­der the pre­vi­ous David John-Williams-led TTFA.

Apart from Lawrence's sack­ing, the board al­so agreed to ac­cept the res­ig­na­tion of Ca­ma­ra David as gen­er­al sec­re­tary and re­placed him with Ramesh Ramd­han, a for­mer World Cup ref­er­ee and pres­i­den­tial can­di­date back in 2015.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the TTFA said fol­low­ing a marathon ses­sion of nine hours on Sat­ur­day, the board, af­ter a ma­jor­i­ty vote, de­cid­ed to sack Lawrence, a de­ci­sion that was lat­er com­mu­ni­cat­ed to the coach via a phone call by Wal­lace. It was al­so agreed that Wal­lace will meet with Lawrence's rep­re­sen­ta­tives to com­plete the sep­a­ra­tion soon. They did not name a re­place­ment for Lawrence but said they would do so soon.

Mean­while, Ramd­han, a busi­ness­man who has pub­licly sup­port­ed the Wal­lace-led Unit­ed TTFA, was ex­pect­ed to get down to work al­most im­me­di­ate­ly.

De­ci­sions made by the TTFA board on Sat­ur­day were:

1. The pro­pos­al sub­mit­ted by for­mer Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Ca­ma­ra David for a mu­tu­al ter­mi­na­tion of his ser­vices was ac­cept­ed. Ramesh Ramd­han was ap­point­ed as his re­place­ment, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

2. The ser­vices of Den­nis Lawrence as Se­nior Men’s Na­tion­al Team head coach were ter­mi­nat­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect fol­low­ing a ma­jor­i­ty de­ci­sion by the board. Im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the de­ci­sion of the board, Pres­i­dent Wal­lace con­tact­ed Mr Lawrence via tele­phone to in­form him of the de­ci­sion and wished him well in his per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al life while al­so thank­ing him for his ser­vices to the Se­nior Men’s Team. The TTFA pres­i­dent and Lawrence’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive(s) will meet to dis­cuss the terms of sep­a­ra­tion. Lawrence’s re­place­ment will be an­nounced short­ly.

3. The Emer­gency Com­mit­tee was ap­point­ed for a four-year term, 2019 to 2023. Chair­per­sons and/or mem­bers were ap­point­ed to six (6) oth­er Com­mit­tees, in­clud­ing Club Li­cens­ing, Com­pe­ti­tions, Fi­nance, Le­gal, Play­er Sta­tus, Sports Med­i­cine.

4. The Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee was ap­point­ed un­der the Chair­man­ship of Kei­th Look Loy. This com­mit­tee will su­per­vise a new tech­ni­cal and man­age­ment struc­ture for TTFA na­tion­al teams and tech­ni­cal pro­grammes. (See at­tached). A North Amer­i­can scout­ing pro­gramme un­der the su­per­vi­sion of the Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee was al­so ap­proved.

5. The Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee will re­view the struc­ture, per­son­nel and fi­nances of the Elite Youth Pro­gramme and make rec­om­men­da­tions to the Board in Jan­u­ary 2010.

6. Dis­cus­sions on the Tech­ni­cal Staffs for the Women’s Un­der 20 and Un­der 17 Teams con­tin­ued and de­ci­sions will be dis­closed in due course ahead of the CON­CA­CAF Women’s Cham­pi­onships in Feb­ru­ary and March 2020 re­spec­tive­ly.

7. TTFA will not sanc­tion the League of Cham­pi­ons cre­at­ed by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion as it in­cludes a ma­jor­i­ty of clubs that are sus­pend­ed by the TTFA’s Gen­er­al Meet­ing and/or their league.

8. The T-League Com­mis­sion will be re­vis­it­ed as part of the gen­er­al move to­wards the for­ma­tion of a new TTFA elite league in 2020.

9. The ser­vices of an en­gi­neer will be se­cured to pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive re­port on the Home of Foot­ball, which re­mains closed to the pub­lic while sev­er­al ap­provals, in­clud­ing Fire Ser­vice and the Cer­tifi­cate of Com­ple­tion, re­main out­stand­ing.

10. The Shel­don Phillips le­gal mat­ter will be im­me­di­ate­ly with­drawn from the In­dus­tri­al Court and an out of court set­tle­ment agreed with Phillips.

11. Sha­ka His­lop was ap­point­ed TTFA Am­bas­sador. Ad­di­tion­al Am­bas­sadors will be ap­point­ed in ap­proach­ing months.