Tensions are mounting at Drax Hall Country Club in St Ann as a number of homeowners accuse the gated community’s homeowners association (HOA) of poor governance, and lack of transparency and accountability, a situation they claim is so severe that it has forced some residents to sell their properties.

“We have been having challenges with successive boards because of a lack of training or personality issues. They refuse to follow proper governance of an HOA,” homeowner Dr Tanika O’Connor Dennie, who also served as a board member in 2021, told Observer Online.

“It started with the board that I was on, where they selected the chair, and she unilaterally blocked all of us from the email. We didn’t know what was going on. We couldn’t see the books,” O’Connor Dennie continued. “They had a clique, which was about five of them, and they would do pre-meetings to decide on things, and then the other two of us that wanted greater transparency and communication would not be privy to the information.”