De­o­raj Ma­hase has been ap­point­ed to act as res­i­dent of the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Plipde­co).

Ma­hase, who is cur­rent­ly the vice pres­i­dent – Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices at Plipde­co, is set to take the role from to­day, Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

His ap­point­ment was an­nounced in a post­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change yes­ter­day.

The post stat­ed, “This in­ter­im ap­point­ment fol­lows the res­ig­na­tion of the sub­stan­tive pres­i­dent and has been made to en­sure con­ti­nu­ity of ex­ec­u­tive lead­er­ship and the ef­fec­tive dis­charge of the Cor­po­ra­tion’s op­er­a­tional, strate­gic, and statu­to­ry re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.”

In De­cem­ber, it was con­firmed that Dr Cur­tis Den­nie re­signed as pres­i­dent of the Plipde­co. His res­ig­na­tion took ef­fect yes­ter­day, De­cem­ber 31. He had been ap­point­ed to the role in Au­gust, ini­tial­ly for a three-month stint, which was ex­tend­ed.

Plipde­co has un­der­gone a se­ries of changes in lead­er­ship over the past 18 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.

The en­tire board of Plipde­co re­signed, ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 18, 2025, 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.