Former legislator Gilbert McLean is no longer the chairman of the board at the National Roads Authority, though it appears he never formally accepted the post before it was gazetted in a government notice.
The NRA, in a statement to the Cayman Compass, confirmed that McLean resigned as chairman in mid-February.
“Cabinet is in the process of considering a new Chairman of the Board, National Roads Authority. Mr. McLean resigned from the post effective 17 February 2023,” the NRA statement to the Cayman Compass said.
McLean, who is also the chairman of the University College of the Cayman Islands board of governors, declined comment.
McLean’s appointment was approved in Cabinet on 17 Jan. to be effective for three years, through 31 Dec. 2025. The appointment was then gazetted on 20 Jan.
However, the Compass understands that McLean, who was set to replace former NRA chairman Alric Lindsay after he resigned last year from the NRA board, did not formally accept the appointment.
Following the gazettal, the appointment letter was issued, but McLean declined the board post, creating a situation where a government notice affirming him as chairman was published without his official acceptance.
Since the appointment had already been published, McLean, the Cayman Compass was told, had to issue a resignation letter for the post.
Deputy chairman Stanley Panton will be the acting chair until Cabinet makes a formal appointment to the post.
All other appointments to the NRA board, which includes Dominique Williams, Decia M. Foster and Peter Campbell as directors, remain as announced.
They will also serve for three years.
Related Videos
