As chair­men from ma­jor state boards con­tin­ue to re­sign due to the change in gov­ern­ment on Mon­day, the lat­est is Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Ltd (TPHL) chair­man Michael Quam­i­na.

In a memo to staff yes­ter­day, Quam­i­na said, “Serv­ing as your chair­man has been a dis­tinct ho­n­our and priv­i­lege. As I pre­pare to leave of­fice, I want to ex­press my sin­cere ad­mi­ra­tion, ap­pre­ci­a­tion, and grat­i­tude to each of you, This jour­ney has been ex­cit­ing and ful­fill­ing, and you have all been amaz­ing trav­el com­pan­ions through the ups and downs, highs and lows, the good times and even the chal­leng­ing ones.”
Quam­i­na told the staff not to for­get that they are a mem­ber of a strong and im­por­tant or­gan­i­sa­tion that, in what­ev­er form it may take, plays a piv­otal role in shap­ing the na­tion's fu­ture.
“To work for this Group is a true priv­i­lege, and I am ex­treme­ly proud of its ac­com­plish­ments, none of which would have been pos­si­ble, with­out your un­wa­ver­ing ded­i­ca­tion and ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion. Thank you, and I wish you all the best in your fu­ture en­deav­ours,” he con­clud­ed.
TPHL has four sub­sidiaries: Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny; Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny; Guaracara Re­fin­ery and Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Petrotrin).

Quam­i­na was ap­point­ed TPHL chair­man in Au­gust 2019.
On Wednes­day Caribbean Air­lines’ chair­man Shameer ‘Ron­nie’ Mo­hammed con­firmed to staff he was step­ping down.
In a bul­letin to staff, Mo­hammed said, “As I pre­pare to step down from my role as chair­man of the board of di­rec­tors, I want to take a mo­ment to ex­press my heart­felt grat­i­tude to each, and every one of you at Caribbean Air­lines. It has been an in­cred­i­ble jour­ney work­ing along­side such a ded­i­cat­ed and pas­sion­ate group of in­di­vid­u­als.”

Mo­hammed was ap­point­ed to the board of Caribbean Air­lines in No­vem­ber 2016.
His an­nounce­ment fol­lows Tues­day's res­ig­na­tions of Sahid Ho­sein as the chair­man of the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Co Ltd and Hillan More­an as chair­man of the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd.

The con­ven­tion in T&T is that di­rec­tors of state boards ap­point­ed by one ad­min­is­tra­tion re­sign when a new po­lit­i­cal par­ty is elect­ed.