TSTT launches probe into Cox

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has launched a sweep­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to for­mer act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Keino Cox, with al­le­ga­tions rang­ing from pro­cure­ment breach­es and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance fail­ures to con­flicts of in­ter­est, fraud, sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and re­tal­i­a­tion against per­sons who raised con­cerns.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion comes as Cox chal­lenges TSTT’s de­ci­sion not to re­new his ap­point­ment as act­ing CEO and its de­ci­sion to place him on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave.

The probe, com­mis­sioned by the TSTT board, will ex­am­ine Cox’s con­duct dur­ing his ap­prox­i­mate­ly year-long tenure at the state-owned telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny and will scru­ti­nise con­tracts and com­mer­cial arrange­ments in­volv­ing eight com­pa­nies.