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The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) has raised con­cerns about gov­er­nance and ap­point­ments in­volv­ing Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (NEL) and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).

In a state­ment dat­ed March 16, the union said de­vel­op­ments in­volv­ing the re­la­tion­ship be­tween NEL and TSTT raise ques­tions about gov­er­nance, trans­paren­cy and the per­cep­tion of in­de­pen­dence with­in State-linked en­ter­pris­es.

The CWU said NEL op­er­ates with­in a gov­er­nance struc­ture con­nect­ed to sev­er­al State as­sets, in­clud­ing its share­hold­ing re­la­tion­ship with TSTT. The union said such arrange­ments should al­low for over­sight and ac­count­abil­i­ty in the man­age­ment of as­sets con­nect­ed to the na­tion­al econ­o­my.