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Creating interim THA structure
CLYDE WEATHERHEAD
COMING OUT of the meeting between the Prime Minister and the 12 elected assemblymen in Tobago – six PNM and six PDP – there is an attempt to negotiate the establishment of an interim arrangement of the THA structure.
The concept of interim arose out of the meeting preferring one of two options outlined by the Prime Minister as possible election scenarios:
1. Proceeding to have a fresh election for 15 assemblymen (based on the provisions of the Tobago House of Assembly (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which was passed in the Senate earlier this month.
2. Proceeding to an election under the Constitution (Amendment) (Tobago Self-Government) Bill 2018 now before a joint select committee of Parliament.
Prime Minister s Parliamentary statement Tobago House of Assembly
Madam Speaker, with the authority of the Cabinet, I make the following statement on the Tobago House of Assembly (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
Madam Speaker, on the 17 th November, 2020, when the Chief Secretary, Ancil Dennis, announced that the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) stood dissolved, very few were anticipating what was on the horizon. What later transpired was constitutionally historical for Tobago and worked, ironically, in some sense, to spotlight the Tobagonian agenda of self-governance.
Madam Speaker, the idea of Tobago autonomy was first championed and articulated by the likes of James Biggart and A. P. T. James. This mission was accelerated by Dr Winston Murray and the indefatigable, the late Honourable ANR Robinson who by 1977 was at the forefront of the agenda. Notwithstanding, it would take a Herculean effort to feign ignorance on the many ways that this constitutional crisis has highlight