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THA education thrust
Staff of the Scarborough Regional Library are expected to occupy the new building in downtown Scarborough next month, Education, Youth Affairs and Sport Secretary Gary Melville has disclosed. He said the building was more than 95 per cent complete and furniture and equipment are expected to be in place in

Self Government for Tobago to be kept on the front burner
Chief Secretary Orville London has assured Tobagonians that the issue of internal self government for Tobago will be kept on the front burner. “We cannot allow the issue of internal self government for Tobago to be forgotten at any level so that when our Prime Minister very casually and matter-of-factedly

Cataract surgeries begin at the Scarborough General Hospital
Scarborough, May 10, 2013: The Division of Health and Social Services through its service provider the Tobago Regional Health Authority has begun the process of cleaning up the waiting list for Cataract surgeries in Tobago. The first surgery was done today on Ms Josephine Nelson at the New Scarborough General

No back pay yet
The 9,000 monthly and daily-paid employees of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) that are due arrears in their salary for the period 2008 to 2010 will have to wait a little longer due to the non receipt of funding from the Central Government. The Assembly which was promised the

Chief Secretary to write Prime Minister
Chief Secretary Orville London plans to write Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar next week reminding her of her commitment to meet quarterly to discuss non-crisis issues relating to the governance of Tobago. The two last met on February 22 at the PM’s Parliament Office when they discussed several issues including that

Chief Secretary meets with Church Representatives
Church representatives in Tobago have embraced the process for the democratisation of the Tobago House of Assembly following the January 21 Assembly election. They have also embraced the invitation from the Executive Council to be more involved in the governance of the island. The 24 speakers among the 80 representatives
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