RALPH BAN­WARIE

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

The Elec­tion Sta­tis­tics slate has won all six elect­ed seats on the Phar­ma­cy Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go coun­cil, in the Feb­ru­ary 22 elec­tion at the Pro­fes­sion­al Cen­tre, Wood­brook.

San­jay Mo­hammed, for­mer sec­re­tary/trea­sur­er, led the poll with 343 votes, fol­lowed by for­mer pres­i­dent Ri­car­do Mo­hammed, for­mer pres­i­dent, with 337. Round­ing out the top six elect­ed per­sons are Joanne Calam­ba Cain­to, 291; Jayakr­ish­nan Sreeku­mar, 280; Clin­ton Sa­hadeo, 204; and Shaquille Kat­wa­roo, 182.

To­geth­er with two doc­tors and two phar­ma­cists ap­point­ed by the Health Min­is­ter, they will form the ten-mem­ber coun­cil.

Coun­cil mem­bers will now vote to se­lect the pres­i­dent, vice-pres­i­dent, and sec­re­tary.

A to­tal of 2,861 votes were cast, with an av­er­age of 5.56 votes per bal­lot, the max­i­mum per­mit­ted be­ing six.

Ri­car­do Mo­hammed said the 2026 elec­tion record­ed one of the largest turnouts among the mem­ber­ship. Vot­ing end­ed at 2 am on Mon­day morn­ing. He said the turnout showed grow­ing in­ter­est in the board’s af­fairs.

Long­stand­ing pres­i­dent An­drew Ra­haman, who filed nom­i­na­tion pa­pers to con­test the elec­tion, was not re­turned by the mem­ber­ship af­ter years with­out au­dits and AGM re­ports.

San­jay Mo­hammed said that for the first time in years, au­dit­ed books were pre­sent­ed at the AGM.