Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed as “gos­sip and a con­coct­ed sto­ry” re­ports that the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is now an­swer­ing to two ju­nior staff mem­bers with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

A so­cial me­dia blog­ger al­leged that, “The re­cent­ly in­stalled CEO of WASA is now be­ing forced to an­swer to ju­nior mem­bers of WASA. In the line min­is­ter’s ab­sence, all de­ci­sions are made through these two ju­nior, non-ex­ec­u­tive staff mem­bers.”

Sources with­in WASA have al­so al­leged to Guardian Me­dia that CEO Kei­throy Hal­l­i­day has been re­port­ing to two non-ex­ec­u­tive man­agers in re­cent days, with the au­thor­i­ty op­er­at­ing with­out a for­mal board fol­low­ing the mass res­ig­na­tion of all 11 mem­bers ear­li­er this month.