Chief sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Orville Lon­don has in­sist­ed it was nev­er the As­sem­bly's in­ten­tion to have two bills on in­ter­nal self-gov­ern­ment for To­ba­go to be a "THA po­si­tion." Lon­don said it was disin­gen­u­ous of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to state this.

Lon­don ap­pealed to Per­sad-Bisses­sar to prac­tice fair play. He stressed that the bills were ap­proved by the THA and were for­ward­ed to Per­sad-Bisses­sar for dis­cus­sion by Cab­i­net. The bills were to be re­leased for pub­lic dis­cus­sion be­fore ap­proval by Par­lia­ment.

Lon­don said there was now a peo­ple's mo­tion be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed in To­ba­go reaf­firm­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans' sup­port for the two THA-ap­proved bills and de­mand­ing that the bills form the ba­sis of the Green Pa­per to be pub­lished for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion. A pe­ti­tion ac­com­pa­ny­ing the mo­tion was al­so be­ing signed.

The Prime Min­is­ter said while there might be a THA po­si­tion on con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form, it can­not on­ly be a THA stance, but must ul­ti­mate­ly be To­ba­go's. Lon­don re­it­er­at­ed that it was an in­sult to To­bag­o­ni­ans that their views can be dis­card­ed in such a cav­a­lier man­ner by the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al (AG) and with the ap­proval of Cab­i­net re­lease the bill which the AG com­mis­sioned to re­place the views of the peo­ple of To­ba­go.