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  • 7 months ago
Congress of the People Candidate Gerard Small has been appointed to the Board of T&TEC.
He tells us, it signals the Prime Minister living up to her commitment that she made to smaller parties which formed part of the United National Congress' Coalition of Interests.
Alicia Boucher has more in this report.
Transcript
00:00Gerard Small, the Congress of the People's candidate for St. Anne's East in the 2025 general election,
00:07is among nine people appointed to serve on the board of TNTech.
00:10He ran against the PNM's Dr. Nian Gatsby-Dawley, who retained her seat.
00:14The nine board members received their appointment letters from Public Utilities Minister Barry Pinarath
00:19at Cabildo Chambers on June 18th and are set to receive their instruments of appointment on Monday, June 23rd.
00:27Small, formerly a radio host known as Mr. X, is the only one of the two COP candidates,
00:34the other being Kurt Sennett, to receive such a post.
00:37So how are you feeling?
00:39I'm feeling great because Kamla Pasadis has not shunned us in any way.
00:47She has, from the beginning to the end, she has took her with us, with all of us, you know, as a team,
00:53and she promised us board positions, even though we were not successful in the general election.
00:59So she promised us board positions, and I was the first to get an A-class board of TNTech.
01:06So that is an accomplishment for me, I would say, and for the party also, too, for COP,
01:11because she would have lived up to her promise.
01:13Small reveals that he got a call last Thursday from the Public Utilities Ministry,
01:18but initially was unsure of what board he would have been appointed to,
01:23having selected four boards of personal preference.
01:26We got a choice to pick which one we would like to be on.
01:29What were the others?
01:31HEC, CPIP, NCC, and along with TTT.
01:37Small says he made those choices because of his background in media and real estate.
01:42As for what he's hoping to bring to the board of TNTech, comprising people whom he says have diverse skills.
01:49My specific skill set is that I have worked 20 years in oil industry, oil and gas industry.
01:55I've worked for BP.
01:56I've worked on every platform in BP over the years.
01:58So I am pretty skilled.
02:00I was a senior HSC advisor slash engineer for BP for a number of years.
02:04So I have that qualification and also the ERCM, which is the Emergency Response and Crisis Management,
02:12in terms of training from management right down to response and communications.
02:18He expects that the promise to other coalition partners will also be kept,
02:22as he states that there are still many boards to be appointed.
02:26According to Small, the first meeting of the new TNTech board will take place on June 24th.
02:31He adds that there are about four areas they have been mandated by Minister Pudarath to look at,
02:37which he is unable to divulge at this time.
02:40Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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