Changes con­tin­ue at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd (Plipde­co) this time with Dr Cur­tis Den­nie, who pre­vi­ous­ly held the po­si­tion of vice pres­i­dent - port op­er­a­tions, mov­ing up to the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent of the cor­po­ra­tion.

Den­nie will serve for three months, Plipde­co out­lined in a ma­te­r­i­al change no­tice post­ed on the T&T Stock Ex­change web­site yes­ter­day.

It said, “Pur­suant to Sec­tion 64(1)(b) of the Se­cu­ri­ties Act 2012, the board of di­rec­tors of Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Ltd here­by no­ti­fies of the fol­low­ing ma­te­r­i­al change:

“Ef­fec­tive Au­gust 1, 2025, Dr Cur­tis Den­nie, who pre­vi­ous­ly held the po­si­tion of vice pres­i­dent - port pper­a­tions, has been ap­point­ed to the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent of the cor­po­ra­tion, for a pe­ri­od of three months, con­clud­ing on 31, Oc­to­ber, 2025. The board of di­rec­tors ex­tends its con­grat­u­la­tions to Dr Den­nie on this ap­point­ment and ex­press­es its full con­fi­dence in his lead­er­ship dur­ing this in­ter­im pe­ri­od.”

The en­tire board of Plipde­co re­signed, ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 18, fol­low­ing the change of gov­ern­ment at the end of April.

A new board was ap­point­ed with Ram­nar­ine Per­sad as chair­man and board mem­bers in­clud­ing Vanes­sa Kussie, the wid­ow of Rishi Na­gas­sar, who was one of the four Land and Ma­rine Con­struc­tion Ser­vices (LM­CS) divers killed in the Feb­ru­ary 2022 Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy.

Oth­er mem­bers of the new board are Sie­u­nar­ine Bab­wah, Karunaa Bis­ram­s­ingh, Trevor Joseph, Mulchan Lewis, Ram­c­hand Maraj, Sa­dia Mo­hammed, Mar­sha Pa­dia, Ron­dell Par­sotan, Jonathan Po­li­ah, In­dy Sama­roo and Jef­fery Sookram.

Plipde­co has un­der­gone a se­ries of changes in the last 12 months, with for­mer act­ing pres­i­dent Dr Av­erne Pan­tin re­sign­ing ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 7, 2025, af­ter be­ing sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave.

Pan­tin was ap­point­ed to act as pres­i­dent ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 29, 2024.

That was the same day the Plipde­co board an­nounced that its last sub­stan­tive pres­i­dent, Ash­ley Tay­lor, was placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave.

Pan­tin, whose sub­stan­tive po­si­tion was vice-pres­i­dent tech­ni­cal ser­vices, was placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 20.