I am really shocked at the revelations made by the Executive management of the National Quarries Company of Trinidad and Tobago. Moreso, it was so shameful and embarassing to hear Colm Imbert educate the management as to what their mission was and that it was available on Google.
They all sat there, deer in the headlights as the lame CEO thanked each committee repeatedly, for questions (ad nauseam) and passed it to someone else. Is this how he does his job; by passing the buck? He certainly did not lead from the front.
In so doing, whoever recruited the ex-WASA acting MD, should unrecruit him as soon as possible because clearly he has brought nothing to the table and cannot be counted on going forward to mitigate the toxicity which was revealed between management and employees.
National Quarries Company acting CEO Gerard Mathura
He may be a worker, but he is not a leader. Somehow, I can’t see him gelling on a National Quary Family Day or team Retreat.
If I recall correctly, BWIA was in a similar position as was Petrotrin. These state enterprises, despite having a guaranteed market for both inputs and outputs alongside billions in state subventions, struggled for years to turn a cent in the black.
It was only when they were shut down, once and for all and reinvented with a private sector philosophy, minus the party hacks, jobs for the boys and girls or just plain dumping grounds for failed executives to hide out, then one saw a turnaround. So, if they are struggling for a strategic plan, I just gave them one – deal with it.
It can’t be that you have a guaranteed source of inputs, you have state protection and the company is running to a “buss” and then say, well “is the workers”. This is not Venezuela.
One other thing, ethnicity is never a corollary for competency…. Its a recipe for disaster. The UNC should be more circumspect how it stacks state boards.
Stay up Trinidad and Tobago.
Linda Capildeo,
St James
