In re­sponse to re­cent con­cerns raised with­in its com­mu­ni­ty about prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall, Holy Name Con­vent Port-of-Spain has an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of an In­de­pen­dent Re­view Com­mit­tee and a Pro­fes­sion­al Care Unit. The Board of Man­age­ment out­lined the steps be­ing tak­en to en­sure trans­paren­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and emo­tion­al sup­port dur­ing this pe­ri­od.

The In­de­pen­dent Re­view Com­mit­tee will op­er­ate sep­a­rate­ly from both the Board and the school ad­min­is­tra­tion. Its man­date in­cludes re­view­ing sub­mis­sions, iden­ti­fy­ing re­cur­ring themes, con­duct­ing in­ter­views, and pre­sent­ing find­ings and rec­om­men­da­tions to the Board. The com­mit­tee is chaired by Vin­cent Pereira, a sea­soned gov­er­nance and lead­er­ship pro­fes­sion­al. He is joined by at­tor­ney Raphael Ajod­hia, re­tired prin­ci­pal Paula Moses, cor­po­rate ex­ec­u­tive and at­tor­ney Frances Bain-Cum­ber­batch, and clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist Isol­de Ali Ghent-Gar­cia. To­geth­er, they bring ex­per­tise in law, ed­u­ca­tion, gov­er­nance, and men­tal health.

The Board ex­pressed grat­i­tude to the pro­fes­sion­als for their will­ing­ness to con­tribute to what it de­scribed as an im­por­tant process. The com­mit­tee’s in­de­pen­dence is in­tend­ed to fos­ter con­fi­dence in the fair­ness and con­fi­den­tial­i­ty of the re­view.