Acting Paria Fuel general manager resigns

Paria Fu­el Trad­ing’s act­ing gen­er­al man­ag­er Joanne Sinanans­ingh has re­signed.

Sinanans­ingh was head of the le­gal de­part­ment and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary of Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (TPHL), as well as Paria act­ing gen­er­al man­ag­er, for the last sev­en months.

She stepped in­to the role fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Mush­taq Mo­hammed short­ly af­ter the Gen­er­al Elec­tion last year.

Guardian Me­dia was told that Sinanans­ingh, who has been with the com­pa­ny for 25 years, from Petrotrin through its tran­si­tion to TPHL, re­signed in De­cem­ber to pur­sue an op­por­tu­ni­ty abroad.

Last De­cem­ber, Paria chair Nyree Al­fon­so told Guardian Me­dia that she was on a re­cruit­ment dri­ve for six man­agers. In ad­di­tion, she said the State-owned en­er­gy com­pa­ny was al­so head­hunt­ing for a gen­er­al man­ag­er and a small cadre of work­ers to sta­bilise the or­gan­i­sa­tion in 2026.

Al­fon­so had said the com­pa­ny had gaps in its staffing re­quire­ments, “which we are mov­ing apace” to ur­gent­ly ad­dress. Paria has 130 em­ploy­ees, many of whom work on an­nu­al con­tracts. The com­pa­ny, she said, had be­gun ad­ver­tis­ing for the var­i­ous po­si­tions, in­clud­ing a gen­er­al man­ag­er.

“While peo­ple are still en­joy­ing their ham and turkey, we will be out in full force, my­self and a sub­set of the board in­ter­view­ing for key po­si­tions in the com­pa­ny be­cause we want to start 2026 on a strong foot­ing,” she had said.

Paria was es­tab­lished in 2018, fol­low­ing the clo­sure of the Petrotrin re­fin­ery. Its scope of ser­vices in­cludes trad­ing and mar­ket­ing of re­fined pe­tro­le­um prod­ucts for im­port, stor­age and re­dis­tri­b­u­tion.