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Two top HEART Trust/NTA directors resign
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
EXECUTIVE director of the HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA), Paulette Dunn Smith, and senior director Clover Barnett resigned yesterday.
The resignations were immediately accepted by the board of directors of the trust.
According to a statement from the HEART Trust, it had came to the attention of the board that "publicly available material" linked the directors with a company called Caribbean TVET Consultants Limited (the "Company") incorporated in Grenada that purports to provide TVET consulting and other services in the Caribbean.
"Notwithstanding the material available in the public domain, of which they were aware, Dunn Smith and Barnett maintain that (i) they have not benefited from work carried out by the company; they own no shares in the company, (iii) they are not legally directors of the company but instead (iv) were merely asked, and consented, to be advisors to the company.
"The board at this time has no reason to disbelieve Dunn Smith or Clover Barnett, who have both served HEART faithfully and with dedication for 17 years.
"However, the controversy caused by the voluntary publication of material that suggested a particular relationship between the directors and the company, created room for doubt, undermined HEART and regrettably, the position of the directors," said the
HEART Trust.
"Therefore, by mutual agreement, and in the best interest of Heart, the directors have resigned and the board has accepted their resignation," added the statement.
The board has asked George Ramocan, a member of the board, to act as executive director.
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