What is TTTI?

TTTI is the Trinidad and Tobago chapter of Transparency International (TI), the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.

Our vision is TI’s vision: a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

Our mission is to work towards a country and region that are free of corruption.

Along with TI’s more than 90 other locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation and in close collaboration with TI’s International Secretariat in Berlin, Germany, we work in a non-confrontational way with relevant players from government, civil society, business and the media to reduce corruption and foster good governance by raising awareness, stimulating action and contributing to the reform of systems, institutions and laws.

Launched in 1998, we are a non-profit company registered under the Trinidad and Tobago Companies Act, 1995 and governed by a Board of Directors elected by our members, both individual and corporate.

We manage our own affairs within the framework of TI’s Vision, Values and Guiding Principles.

We are therefore a non-governmental and politically non-partisan organisation.

We do not investigate individual cases, 'name names', confront individuals or authorities in suspected cases of corruption or comment on cases of corruption before they reach the public domain.

We benefit from the considerable skills, tools, experience and expertise in fighting corruption acquired by TI and its national chapters and strive to make our own contributions to this storehouse of resources.

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Our Board

These are the members of our Board of Directors elected at our ninth Annual General Meeting on the 25th of June 2009:

He also served as Executive Committee Member of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy, President of the Rotary Club of Port of Spain and Vice-President of The South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

He was a member of the Commission of Enquiry into the Piarco Airport Development Project.

Mr. Hart has been a member of the Board of Directors of TTTI since May 2005, serving first as Treasurer, then as Vice-Chairman and currently as Chairman.

He represented the Institute at TI's Annual Meeting of Members in Guatemala in 2006 and Bali in 2007. He has represented the Institute at conferences in Washington D.C. and Miami, USA, The Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr. Lewis is a architect and director of acla:works - Architects & Urban Planners

He has served as a member of a Cabinet appointed Oversight Committee for the Construction Industry, of the Interim National Physical Planning Commission and member of the Professional Practice Committees of the International Union of Architects, the Commonwealth Association of Architects and the Trinidad & Tobago Institute of Architects.

He is a Lifetime Founding Council Member and sometime President of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry. He also served as President of Trinidad & Tobago Institute of Architects.

Mr. Lewis served on TTTI’s Public Procurement Reform Project Team from 2002 to 2003. He became a Director in June 2006 and has served as Chairman of the Public Procurement Reform Committee since then.

Mr. Reid is a retired Information Technology Manager.

He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the National University of Ireland and a Licentiate in Social Sciences from the Gregorian University in Rome.

He joined TTTI in early 1999 and, in October of that year, was elected to the Board and appointed Secretary. He continued in this post until June, 2002 when he was elected Chairman. He held that position up to September, 2004. He represented the Institute at the Annual General Meetings of TI in 2000 and 2002.

From May, 2005 to the present he has served as Secretary. He has also performed a number of administrative functions, served as secretary to the Public Education and Public Procurement Reform Committees and represented the Institute on the committees drafting the Government's White Paper on the reform of the procurement regime and the new procurement legislation. He also took part in the training of public servants in the ethics of public procurement.

He represented the Institute at TI's 2005 Annual Meeting of Members.

Bishnu Ragoonath, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. The focus of his teaching is on themes related to governance, development, administration, politics and ethics.

His teaching is supported by an active research agenda via projects undertaken in several Caribbean countries.

Apart from his teaching and research, at the University of the West Indies Dr Ragoonath has served in various administrative positions and continues to sit on various committees. He is also the elected Treasurer of the Academic, Professional and Senior Administrative staff union.

He sits on the Board of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) and is an ex-officio member of the Executive of the Caribbean Association of Local Government Authorities (CALGA). He also serves on various Technical Working Groups and Research Advisory Groups associated with local governance.

Dr. Ragoonath was first elected to the Board of TTTI in 2007.

A graduate with Honours of the University of the West Indies in 1993, and the Hugh Wooding Law School in St. Augustine, Trinidad. Ms. Rose is a well-established advocate in Trinidad and Tobago qualified to practice law throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean. She has extensive litigation and jury trial experience successfully pursuing matters at the High Court and Appellate levels.

In 2001, Ms. Rose formed the firm, Rose & Co., attorneys at law, and developed an innovative construct for complex litigation by bringing together leading Senior Counsels, Junior Counsels and Instructing Attorneys into litigation teams constructed specifically to meet the clients needs in special matters thus forming a Special Matters practice.

In 2002, she was appointed by the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and served as Counsel to the Commission of Enquiry into the Piarco Airport Development Project from June 2002 to September 2003.

In 2005, Ms. Rose was again involved in the investigation of procurement fraud as Counsel for the Honourable Minister of Housing and former Minister of Planning and Development in the Commission of Inquiry into, inter alia, the award of construction projects by the Ministry of Planning and Development and the Ministry of Housing during the period 2002 - 2004.