Emile Ramkissoon has been elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion, step­ping in­to the role at a time of mount­ing pres­sure on the coun­try’s non-en­er­gy sec­tor and grow­ing calls for de­ci­sive pol­i­cy ac­tion.

His elec­tion took place to­day at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad dur­ing the TTMA’s 70th an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing and lead­er­ship con­fer­ence.

In a force­ful in­au­gur­al ad­dress, Ramkissoon, an at­tor­ney and man­u­fac­tur­ing ex­ec­u­tive, made it clear that his pres­i­den­cy will be de­fined by ad­vo­ca­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty and re­sults, as he con­front­ed what he de­scribed as per­sis­tent struc­tur­al bar­ri­ers fac­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers.