Roget heads OWTU for 4th term

All twelve members of Roget’s team were also nominated and subsequently elected unopposed signalling a victory for the OWTU’s long standing Rebel Movement.

The newly elected members will serve from January 2017 to January 2020.

Nomination Day was December 15 and the positions up for grabs were- President General, General Secretary, Assistant General Secretary, Treasurer, First- Vice President, Second-Vice President, three Vice Presidents, and three Executive Trustees while elections were scheduled for January 16, 2017. In his closing remarks Roget thanked retiring vice presidents Gregory Marchan and Sylvester Virgil for their years of committed service to the Union and to workers. Ricky Benny of the Petrotrin/Pointe-a-Pierre Branch and Marcus Cordner of the T&TEC, Scarborough Branch are the two new additions to the national executive.

The union’s National Executive for the period January 2017 to January 2020 are as follows:

1. Ancel Roget, Trinmar - President General

2. Richard Lee, Petrotrin Fyzabad/Palo Seco - General Secretary

3. Jennifer Charles, National Canners - Assistant General Secretary

4. Chandrasain Ramsingh, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) - Treasurer

5. Carlton Gibson, Trinmar - First-Vice President

6. Sati Gadajhar-Inniss, Powergen Penal - Second- Vice President

7. Ricky Benny, Petrotrin Pointe-a-Pierre - Vice President

8. Marcus Cordner, T&TEC Tobago - Vice President

9. Peter Burke, T&TEC Port-of Spain - Vice President

10. Lawrence Renaud, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) - Executive Trustee

11. Himraj Basdeo, Petrotrin Fyzabad/Palo Seco - Executive Trustee

12. Ozzi Warwick, OWTU Central Office - Executive Trustee