By Jeff Trotman
The board of directors of the Linden Enterprise Network Inc. (LEN) is not a reflection of the wishes of the people of Linden. Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon made the criticism on January 29th at a press conference he called immediately after the seven-member board was inaugurated.
“It is a government board,” Gordon bemoaned. “It’s not a board like how it was in LEAP or LEAF time. It is government appointed.”
Stating that he does not have any quarrel with the board of directors, personally, Gordon contended that “the board is not accountable to the people”. According to him, LEN is supposed to be an indigenous organization with representation from the broad mass of people in the community and, therefore, the board should have been made up of people from the general stakeholdership of the town; additionally, terms of reference should have been established to determine the way forward. “This should have been a sub component of the entire regional system – of the regional economic programme. This would have been one