NAR leader tight-lipped on unc appointment

NATIONAL Alliance for Recon-struction (NAR) Political Leader Lennox Sankersingh yesterday declined to comment on reports that he is tipped to be deputy chairman of the UNC-controlled Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regi-onal Corporation. Sankersingh told Newsday that “he was still having talks” on the matter and preferred not to comment at this time. Asked if he had made contact with NAR Tobago chairman Christo Gift about the decision to continue the party’s alliance with the UNC following Local Government Elections, Sankersingh said he had not. Gift has accused Sankersingh of  “selling out” the NAR to its former coalition partner and the NAR leader said he would meet with Gift once the elections were over. In a Newsday story, Sankersingh was listed as one of three persons with NAR ties who were tipped for top positions in three UNC-controlled regional corporations. 

Former Ambassador Suruj Rambachan and Director of the Land Settlement Agency Dr Allen Sammy seem set to replace Orlando Nagessar and Carl Debideen as heads of the Chaguanas Borough and Penal/Debe Regional Corporations respectively. Nagessar said he was not troubled about being replaced as mayor and his main priority was the rebuilding of the UNC following last week’s elections. UNC chairman Wade Mark said the party had to make further consultations before releasing its final list of chairmen and aldermen. The UNC and NAR made an arrangement prior to the elections to appoint at least one NAR alderman to any corporation which it controlled.