Up to late yes­ter­day, Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) board mem­bers were locked in a meet­ing dis­cussing their next move. This fol­lows line min­is­ter Bhoe Tewarie's an­nounce­ment of plans to dis­band the board in light of on­go­ing con­tention be­tween board mem­bers and chair­man Dan­ny Solomon.

The T&T Guardian learned some of the board mem­bers yes­ter­day in­di­cat­ed their in­ten­tion to re­sign im­me­di­ate­ly. How­ev­er, up to press time no de­ci­sion had been made. Tewarie was ex­pect­ed to send a note to Cab­i­net yes­ter­day rec­om­mend­ing for the board to be changed.

Dis­tanc­ing him­self from the con­tro­ver­sy over the board, Tewarie said he nev­er rec­om­mend­ed the board but be­came re­spon­si­ble when he took over as line min­is­ter. Sto­ries pub­lished ex­clu­sive­ly in the Sun­day Guardian high­light­ed CDA?de­ci­sions that went against board po­si­tions. The board mem­bers have been at log­ger­heads with Solomon over man­age­ment is­sues.

Yes­ter­day some dis­missed state­ments that sev­er­al de­ci­sions were made unan­i­mous­ly. "All meet­ings were sus­pend­ed more than two months ago be­cause of the nu­mer­ous com­plaints were have. We wrote to the line min­is­ter think­ing that the is­sues would be rec­ti­fied but this is the end re­sult," one board mem­ber said.

Re­fer­ring to the de­ci­sion to ac­cept a $2.9 mil­lion cheque from a third par­ty af­ter the board agreed to grant a lease to EOG Re­sources Trinidad Ltd, an­oth­er board mem­ber said: "We nev­er agreed to ac­cept that cheque. We have let­ters ques­tion­ing who au­tho­rised the ac­cep­tance of that cheque. That was not a unan­i­mous de­ci­sion."