On Thursday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar at the 9th Inauguration of the Tobago House of Assembly stated that by the result in the polls, the people of Tobago have rejected the TOP’s offer put forward via the Bill for internal self-government and as such, the debate and possible passing of the Bill has been pushed back till February.
President George Maxwell Richards at the 9th inauguration of the Tobago House of Assembly on Thursday advised Tobagonians to continue to hold onto that which is Tobagonian.
Political Leader of the Platform of Truth, Hochoy Charles says the intervention of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar during the last week of the Tobago Organization of the People’s election campaign destroyed any chances the TOP had of winning the election.
The People’s National Movement won all 12 seats in the THA 2013 elections. The win has been dubbed a historic moment for Tobago as it has never happened like this before, where one party took all 12 electoral districts.
The Tobago Organization has lost the Tobago House of Assembly’s 2013 election. In fact they won none of the 12 seats and although the political leader of the party, Ashworth Jack isn’t sure where the party went wrong, he takes full responsibility for the loss.
The 3rd Edition of the FX Reloaded Body Building Competition took place recently at the Gulf City Mall in Lowlands. Scores of supporters flocked to the mall to witness the highly anticipated show.
Yet another family is crying negligence on the part of the nurses and doctors at the Scarborough Regional Hospital and the Scarborough General Hospital. They are now calling on the Secretary for Health Claudia Groome Duke and Minister of Health Dr. Fuad Khan to intervene.
Residents of Buccoo are still trying to come to terms with the murder-suicide which occurred in their village on Tuesday. 36 year old Burlinda Solomon- Sobers was chopped to death at her Orchid Lane, Coral Gardens Buccoo home at around 7:45am. The assailant fled the scene but was later found dead in a nearby cornfield at Buccoo Junction in the vicinity of the traffic lights. Autopsies are yet to be conducted on the bodies.
The infestation of rats, the pungent smell of sewerage and the danger of high voltage wires are just some of the issues that workers employed at the Cyd Gray Complex have to deal with on a daily basis.
Minister of Tobago Development Dr. Delmon Baker has said that the People’s National Movement has failed Tobagonians. He questions after 12 years and billions of dollars, what have they done for the people.
