The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) notes the four-year si­lence sur­round­ing the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of T&T’s (TSTT) so-called “Fit for Pur­pose” re­port as a grave trav­es­ty on trans­paren­cy, po­lit­i­cal abuse and cor­po­rate ne­glect, with “blows” to be ren­dered on the past ad­min­is­tra­tion and now the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion un­der the purview of Bar­ry Padarath, pre­vi­ous­ly the noise­mak­er on the op­po­si­tion bench.

At the time it was launched by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment, to look in­to the state of the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions, it was best de­scribed as a “not so deep dive.” Four years lat­er, the re­port seems to have sunken. What TSTT em­ploy­ees and, by ex­ten­sion, the cit­i­zen­ry has seen over the years is man­aged and con­ve­nient si­lence.

Four years lat­er, on this day (May 11, 2026), we are yet to see the re­port, much less ask that it be pub­lished, or if there were any rec­om­men­da­tions that would have made the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions more ef­fi­cient. What we have seen and con­tin­ue to see is “no es­tab­lished ac­count­abil­i­ty,” just a shift of the goal­post with a dif­fer­ent team play­ing the same games.