A big stink at NIB Mall has caused the National Insurance Board to stop functioning. The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) had to step in to assist beneficiaries and other clients of the National Insurance Board (NIB) who have been deprived of service for the past month at the Board’s Tobago Local Office in NIB Mall Scarborough.
During the Chief Secretary’s and the Minister of Tobago Development’s first meeting recently, the Chief brought to hand the topic of the hundred million dollars still owed to the Tobago Regional Health Authority.
Approximately 1.4 million dollars in funding was distributed by the Tobago House of Assembly to various sporting organizations on the island. The handing over ceremony took place at the Education Conference Room.
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.
President of the Tobago Agricultural Society Owen Dillon says farmers are disappointed with the plans for agriculture which were outlined in the Tobago House of Assembly’s 2013 budget proposals.
Some Motorists who travel along the west and south west of Tobago daily are clearly unhappy with the Tobago House of Assembly’s intention to construct a roundabout at the Auchencheosch Junction.
The Tobago Heritage Festival launched their Art Exhibition recently at the Gulf City Mall in Lowlands. This is the 2nd year that the Art Exhibition is taking place and it is expected to be a successful one.
Recently appointed Minister of Tobago Development Dr Delmon Baker had his first meeting with THA Chief Secretary Orville London since assuming his new portfolio.
Chairman of the Republican Action Movement (RAM), Lennox Benjamin describes the Governments green paper on Internal Self Government for Tobago as just another disguise to control Tobago.
A number of citizens in Tobago who have reached the age of sixty five and have qualified for the senior citizens grant are yet to receive their money.
