Sev­er­al state boards are ex­pect­ed to be changed or re­con­fig­ured next month when their two-year terms come to an end. Sun­day Guardian learned that some mem­bers have al­ready giv­en writ­ten no­tice in­di­cat­ing they were not in­ter­est­ed in serv­ing again if asked.

Sources said this was in light of the nu­mer­ous con­tentious is­sues fac­ing boards. Fol­low­ing the re­con­fig­u­ra­tion of Cab­i­net ear­li­er this year, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­di­cat­ed she was al­so re­view­ing the ap­point­ments of board mem­bers.

Sev­er­al chair­men and board mem­bers have butt heads over gov­ern­ing is­sues and writ­ten nu­mer­ous com­plaints to Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the rel­e­vant line min­is­ters. In some in­stances, the chair­men have been re­placed while at oth­er state boards, mem­bers re­main at log­ger­heads.

The most con­tentious board so far has been Caribbean Air­lines which was head­ed by George Nicholas III, who sub­se­quent­ly re­signed af­ter sev­er­al pri­vate and pub­lic squab­bles with the line min­is­ter and mem­bers of the board. The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of T&T board al­so came un­der pub­lic scruti­ny.

The Tourism and De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny board, mean­while, was dis­band­ed af­ter Lara de Som­pre-the sis­ter-in-law of Sports Min­is­ter Anil Roberts-failed to have her con­tract re­newed. The ap­point­ment of Na­tion­al Schools Di­etary Ser­vices chair­man Dawn An­na­muntho­do was al­so re­voked six months af­ter she was ap­point­ed, fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions that she had racked up a $50,000 VIP se­cu­ri­ty bill.

Five board mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion are now be­ing probed by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion in con­nec­tion with ir­reg­u­lar hir­ing prac­tices, while the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty board re­mains in con­tention over var­i­ous ques­tion­able de­ci­sions be­ing made by some mem­bers.