Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Orville London is urging workers in the assembly's $38 million Special Tobago Infrastructure Programme to give a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. Registration for jobs in the programme will take place at the Delaford Community Centre in east Tobago today from 9 am to noon, while actual work on the projects will begin from Thursday. Workers will be required to work for eight hours a day, unlike those in Cepep, URP and the Assembly's Development Programme.
The Special Tobago Infrastructure Programme is geared toward restoring and rehabilitating the island's road network, as well as construction of retaining walls, culverts and reinstatement of drains. "Sometimes, as Tobagonians, we end up encouraging people to lick us up," London said. "These things will not be fixed by the secretary or assistant secretary; they have to be fixed by Tobago people working for Tobago people money," London told villagers of Delaford on Thursday night, during the second stop of the Assembly's "Meet the Communities" caravan. Several of them raised problems they had been experiencing in the village, especially in the areas of drainage, landslips, road conditions and housing.