First Cit­i­zens Group has ap­point­ed Kevin Haqq to the po­si­tion of group chief risk of­fi­cer.

In a no­tice post­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change and pub­lished in the me­dia, ma­jor­i­ty state-owned First Cit­i­zens said Haqq’s ap­point­ment took ef­fect on Au­gust 24, 2026.

The no­tice said Haqq holds a Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Ac­tu­ar­i­al Man­age­ment as well as a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Ac­tu­ar­i­al Sci­ence and is a Fel­low of the In­sti­tute and Fac­ul­ty of Ac­tu­ar­ies.

First Cit­i­zens said he has over 18 years of pro­gres­sive man­age­ment ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing eight years in se­nior man­age­ment.

Haqq has tak­en up the role which was made va­cant af­ter Ger­ard Mor­ton re­signed as group chief risk of­fi­cer on Jan­u­ary 22 with Ne­sha Ramkha­lawan, who had been serv­ing as act­ing group chief risk of­fi­cer, re­sign­ing on Ju­ly 7, 2026.

First Cit­i­zens has had shake ups in its ex­ec­u­tive ranks with six se­nior of­fi­cers de­part­ing from the com­pa­ny in the past year.

Ja­son Julien re­signed as group CEO on Ju­ly 31 to take up a job with a US com­pa­ny.

In March, Neela Mooni­lal-Kissoon, deputy CEO, op­er­a­tions and ad­min­is­tra­tion, left. Don­na Miller re­signed as Chief In­ter­nal Au­di­tor in April. Her po­si­tion was filled two days lat­er by Ju­lia Maria Daniel.

The po­si­tion of group risk of­fi­cer was one of two po­si­tions that First Cit­i­zens’ chair­man Shankar Bidaisee said this month would soon be filled when con­tact­ed by me­dia af­ter Julien’s res­ig­na­tion.

He had said then, the group chief in­ter­nal au­di­tor is ex­pect­ed to join the group short­ly.