All surgeries at the Scarborough Regional Hospital were canceled on Monday; this is as a result of sick out action staged by nurses at the hospital. And President of the Public Services Association Watson Duke says it is time the TRHA employees are shown the respect they deserve. According to a source at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, several nurses left their stations unattended at the hospital
The Tobago district of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teacher’s Association held their annual Teacher’s Get Together ceremony and awards function recently at the Rovanel’s Resort. The event which also formed a part of the activities which were held throughout the week as part of TTUTA’s 72nd anniversary was also an opportunity to bid farewell to retiring teachers.
The Chief Secretary in the Tobago House of Assembly, Hon. Orville London at a recent town meeting, spoke on the opportunities available in Tobago for all. He stated that there are going to be a lot of opportunities and challenges and once the opportunities are there, and it is not taken up, then someone else will take it away.
The Super League competition will kick off on Sunday June 10th for the 1976FC Phoenix football team and the boys are both eager and confident going into the game. Coach of the team, Terry Williams sat down with us and told us how he is looking forward to the season.
Tobago’s only 24 hour gas station has been robbed. According to police, sometime after 3 a.m. on Wednesday, two masked men entered the Bon Accord Gas station and held up the security guard and a female cashier.
Corpus Christi is a day when most people plant crops. In keeping with this tradition, the Minister of Food Crop Production, Land and Marine Affairs Vasant Bharath launched a Home Gardening Initiative. According to a release from the Minister of Food Crop Production, Land and Marine Affairs Vasant Bharath, the Home Garden Initiative was launched with the establishment of a model home garden at the Ministry’s Head office.
Pensioners, the physically challenged, the sick, persons in abusive relationships and those who are without caregivers are to benefit from a new Medic-alert system to be introduced by the Tobago House of Assembly from August
THA’s Chief Secretary, Orville London has expressed his unhappiness with what has taken place recently in Tobago, citing that the People’s Partnership Central Government is “playing very cheap politics and in fact, in some cases obscene politics” ; with the issue of self government for Tobago.
Impostors on board!!! That’s the cry of one fisherman as he says that there is now a rush by persons claiming that they are fishermen in order to capitalise on the compensation money from Petro- Canada. Several years ago, the international oil drilling company Petro Canada conducted a seismic survey in the waters of Tobago.
The Tobago Organization of the People Political Leader, Ashworth Jack made it clear during the People’s Partnership’s 2nd anniversary celebrations on Saturday in Tobago, that the reason for his party joining the partnership was solely in an attempt to help Tobago and the people on the Island.
