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Tobago prepares budget

The Finance and Enterprise Development Division has recently completed a survey to gauge how people felt about the island’s budget proposals. Joel Jack, the Finance and Enterprise Development Secretary, said that this unique approach, undertaken for the first time this year, was designed to find out if people really understood

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THA to adopt PPP model

The Division of Finance and Enterprise Development of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) will adopt a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) policy for the implementation of projects identified for the island’s development programme. Speaking at Wednesday’s weekly post-Executive Council media briefing, Assemblyman Joel Jack, the Secretary of Finance and Enterprise Development,

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Workshop on Technopreneurship for the Caribbean

Grenadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell says that it bothers him that there is no opposition in his island’s parliament. He wondered how THA Chief Secretary Orville London, who also has no opposition in the Tobago House of Assembly, handles it. Mitchell said it affects his motivation and sometimes he

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Hospital laundry commissioning

Scarborough General Hospital can now boast of a state-of-the-art laundry as part of its new operations. The new laundry is two kilometres away from the hospital, on old Milford Road, with part of the laundry having been refurbished and new areas constructed, at a cost of $27.4M. The core equipment

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Tobago pays respects to ANR Robinson

The body of Arthur Napolean Raymond Robinson, former President and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and Chairman of the Tobago House of Assembly lay in state today (2 May, 2014) at the Chamber, Assembly Legislature Building, Scarborough, Tobago. Mr Robinson’s coffin was draped in the national flag and displayed

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Financial assistance to two

The Tobago House of Assembly on Thursday (24th April 2014) provided two more organisations with financial assistance to undertake improvement projects. The 15-year-old Buccoo Reef Trust received a cheque for $120,000 from Chief Secretary Orville London, while The People’s Pentecostal Church/the Pentecostal Light & Life Foundation received $65,391.30. During the

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