David Muhammad, whose profile on online research website Wikipedia states he is the Trinidad and Eastern Caribbean representative of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (NOI), was selected by Government to be chairman of a new board for the National Library and Information System Authority (Nalis).

A release on Thursday said that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar officially handed over instruments of appointment to the newly-appointed board of the authority. Muhammed, 55, was born in England.

The NOI is a religious organisation founded in the US by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. Key figures in its history include Elijah Muhammad, current leader Farrakhan and American freedom fighter and activist Malcolm X.