A bill to pro­vide for the in­ter­nal self-gov­ern­ment for To­ba­go will be in­tro­duced in Par­lia­ment to­day. A re­lease from the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions yes­ter­day stat­ed the Gov­ern­ment of T&T will de­liv­er on its promise to cit­i­zens of To­ba­go when the bill is laid at the sit­ting of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

It added the peo­ple of To­ba­go have long called for in­ter­nal self-rule. Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er is al­so ex­pect­ed to ad­dress the Low­er House on the state of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in the coun­try. Warn­er will al­so make a state­ment on his min­istry's plans to com­bat crime in 2013.

The bill was the re­sult of months of con­sul­ta­tions held with To­bag­o­ni­ans on the way for­ward and rec­om­men­da­tions made by the com­mit­tee ap­point­ed with the task. The 2010 doc­u­ment promised that the "peo­ple of To­ba­go will have a ma­jor role in de­ter­min­ing their present and fu­ture de­vel­op­ment."

It clear­ly states that the Gov­ern­ment would "re­vis­it the pro­vi­sions of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Act with a view to grant­i­ng greater au­ton­o­my and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to the peo­ple of To­ba­go over mat­ters that di­rect­ly im­pact on To­ba­go." Oth­er mat­ters sched­uled for the third ses­sion of the tenth Par­lia­ment in­clude fi­nan­cial re­ports of sev­er­al state com­pa­nies, ques­tions for oral an­swers, state­ments by min­is­ters and the in­tro­duc­tion of bills.