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One day af­ter it was an­nounced that Kent West­ern re­signed as TSTT’s chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Gov­ern­ment is deny­ing claims of po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

Yes­ter­day, the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) ac­cused Gov­ern­ment of hav­ing a role to play in West­ern’s de­ci­sion to step down.

Two weeks pri­or, the union said it had in­for­ma­tion that the then Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go CEO was set to be re­placed. At the time, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath said there was no truth to the union’s claims.