Too few Indian Chiefs

Blogger, researcher Richard William Thomas has completed detailed research on the ethnic balance in the 18 top public sector corporations of Trinidad and Tobago and has found a glaring disparity.

Richard found that of the 295 top positions in the 18 corporations 235 are held by non-Indians and only 60 by Indians.

Thomas began his project because he wanted to know whether "in a country such as Trinidad and Tobago, where the sisters and brothers of the Indian Diaspora are either in the majority, or very close to the majority of the population - 43% - such awesome presence is not reflected in the composition of those entities?

"So curious was I, that I mused, "Richard! Why not do some research to satisfy it?" It took less than two hours navigation of the Internet to come up with the following data regarding eighteen top state-owned entities.

"Regardless of your political persuasion, you'd be as shocked as I was for the realities encountered. Here goes!..."

For the full report including charts and diagrams please read: Too few Indian Chiefs! on Richard's blog.

Footnote: The Indo Trinbago Equality Council (ITEC) is using Richard's information to launch a formal complaint with Trinidad and Tobago's Equal Opportunities Commission. ITEC President Devant Maharaj wrote Richard about the matter:

Here's his note:

"Dear Sir,
I got a copy of your research on the representation of Indians in State Boards and was very impressed. Subsequently I used the same material [crediting your name of course] in a formal complaint with the Equal Opportunities Commission..."

Devant

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