Almost 600 people voted to “authorise, instruct and mandate The Forum of Political Leaders to take all proper and necessary steps to achieve and secure democratic self- government for Tobago in the shortest possible time”. At Sunday’s final Self Government Convention, a packed audience at the Signal Hill Secondary School

Chief Secretary Orville London has said the $2.609B allocated to the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) from the national budget is the minimum amount that Central Government has to give by law. According to the Dispute Resolution Commission (DRC) the allocation to the Assembly must be between 4.03 per cent

The Tobago House of Assembly has been allocated the minimum 4.03 per cent of the $65B budget. For fiscal 2015 its budgetary allocation is $2.609B of which $2.202B will be for recurrent expenditure to pay salaries and wages to workers, $384M for capital expenditure, and $23.0M for the Unemployment Relief

There is still some misunderstanding of what self government really means to Tobago, according to Chief Secretary Orville London. He recalled that, at an impromptu meeting with some footballers last week, the question of Tobago’s self government came up, and there were concerns raised by a couple of the young

Chief Secretary Orville London is hoping that Finance Minister Larry Howai in his 2015 budget presentation will be more sensitive to the needs of the people of Tobago and THA’s desire to ensure that its human capital development programmes are instituted. He said in pre-budget discussions the Minister seemed to

A task force and Tobago House of Assembly representation at weekly meetings with Caribbean Airlines (CAL) are the outcome of talks between the Division of Tourism and Transportation (DOTT) and national airline officials. Secretary of Tourism and Transportation Tracy Davidson-Celestine led a team to a meeting with CAL’s CEO Michael