TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO CARNIVAL TUESDAY 2018

Tobago’s governance enters a new era tonight. The Senate has passed the THA Amendment Bill 2026. The most significant impact is the removal of the rule of seven. For years, the Executive Council was capped at seven Secretaries, often forcing a single member to juggle disconnected portfolios like Tourism, Health, and Finance. | Tobago Updates

Following a clean sweep at the polls earlier this week, Chief Secretary Farley Augustine is wasting no time restructuring the Tobago House of Assembly. With an unprecedented fifteen-nil mandate, the administration is moving to expand its Executive Council from nine to eleven Secretaries. But as Jewel Greene-George reports, this expansion comes with a strict nine-month ultimatum for those taking the oath… | Tobago Updates