The trade union rep­re­sent­ing An­gos­tu­ra work­ers hopes good sense will pre­vail fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the com­pa­ny's board ear­li­er this week.

the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent, Michael An­nisette, could not speak de­fin­i­tive­ly on the rea­sons be­hind the board's res­ig­na­tion, but he said ul­ti­mate­ly who­ev­er is set to re­place the out­go­ing board should work in the com­pa­ny's best in­ter­est.

"Some peo­ple say it's a po­lit­i­cal cus­tom. Some say it's a le­gal re­quire­ment, and you're go­ing to have the dif­fer­ent views. But at the end of the day, I think every­body has to do what is the best in­ter­est at the com­pa­ny and the cor­po­ra­tion. That is my view," said An­nisette.

"We will an­tic­i­pate that there will be a board soon, so that the work at An­gos­tu­ra can go on. We rep­re­sent work­ers and our phi­los­o­phy is to work with any man­age­ment team that is around in the best in­ter­est the com­pa­ny, and, by ex­ten­sion, Trinidad and To­ba­go."

All six An­gos­tu­ra di­rec­tors re­signed from the com­pa­ny this week. Dr Maryam Ab­dool-Richards, Ger­ard Coop­er, and Tri­cia Coos­al sub­mit­ted their res­ig­na­tions on Tues­day while Dr Ster­ling Frost, Fran­ka Costel­loe and chair­man Ter­rence Bharath left on Wednes­day.

An­nisette said the new board would have to ad­dress share­hold­ers, but he was hope­ful the new team would keep the work­ers in the mind while do­ing their du­ty.

"At the end of the day, no mat­ter what we pay, we must pay at­ten­tion to what is in the best in­ter­est of the cor­po­ra­tion that has to trump any court process. As far as I am con­cerned, be­cause that is the most im­por­tant thing. What is in the best in­ter­est of the com­pa­ny and then I will call on the gov­ern­ment to en­sure that we get a board in place as quick­ly as pos­si­ble," he said.