After Finance Minister, Larry Howai presented the 2012/2013 fiscal package, the Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly Orville London and the Secretary for Finance Dr. Anselm London within recent times complained that the allocation for Tobago is below the stipulated 4.03percent.
Spectators lined the streets of Market Square in Scarborough on Saturday morning to get a glimpse of the many cyclists taking part in the leg of the Tobago cycling classic 2012. Darren Matthew continued his dominance after race day three ended.
There was an abundance of Police officers on the Scarborough Esplanade as the two day police caravan continued recently. Present was the Acting Commissioner of Police along with Assistant Superintendant Joanne Archie who both spoke to Tobago Channel 5 news on the initiative.
Despite the rains, the Commissioning of the Eternal Flame at James Park in Scarborough went ahead as planned.
Nine shops were broken into over the weekend as bandits pounced on the Crooks River Mall in Scarborough. Tenants who hurried to their stores upon hearing of the break -in could only look around in dismay at the shattered doors, broken cash registers, and goods scattered all over the floor of their stores.
The Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly, the Secretary for Health and the Secretary for Finance have all expressed relief at finally receive confirmation that the $100 million that was owed for the completion of the new Scarborough Hospital will now be made available.
An island wide power outage has caused major businesses in the island’s capital to be closed for most of the day. Even the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission’s office in Scarborough was out of power and padlocked.
Coast Guard officials are currently engaged in probing suspected wreckage which was discovered in Tobago waters on Thursday morning. The find also resulted in the T&T Express being delayed.
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.
In an effort to Revitalise Catholic Culture and Identity in Tobago, the Scarborough Roman Catholic Church held a concert on Sunday at the Signal Hill Secondary School.
