Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Orville Lon­don and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will meet to­day at the Par­lia­ment Build­ing, Tow­er D, Port-of-Spain.

The meet­ing was re­quest­ed by Lon­don to dis­cuss sev­er­al crit­i­cal is­sues of con­cern to To­ba­go, in­clud­ing his pro­pos­al for the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment to abort the present process be­fore the Par­lia­ment to give To­ba­go self-gov­ern­ment and for it to re­turn to dis­cus­sion and ne­go­ti­a­tion with the as­sem­bly to come to a point where by the time the bill got to Par­lia­ment there should not be too many ar­eas of dis­con­nect be­tween the peo­ple of To­ba­go and the peo­ple of the rest of the coun­try.

Is­sues ex­pect­ed to be dis­cussed are:

�2 The col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment in the re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of the To­ba­go econ­o­my.

�2 A re­view of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween min­is­ters of Gov­ern­ment and sec­re­taries in the THA.

�2 Fund­ing for hous­ing pro­grammes in To­ba­go.

�2 The ap­point­ment of THA nom­i­nees to State boards and com­mis­sions to deal with is­sues of a To­ba­go na­ture which re­quired an in­put from the as­sem­bly.

Lon­don said the as­sem­bly, up to last year, had rep­re­sen­ta­tion on 30 boards.

The Chief Sec­re­tary said he would al­so rec­om­mend to Per­sad-Bisses­sar the in­sti­tu­tion­al­i­sa­tion of quar­ter­ly non-cri­sis meet­ings be­tween the Prime Min­is­ter and the Chief Sec­re­tary to for­mu­late ad­min­is­tra­tive and leg­isla­tive mech­a­nisms for the pro­mo­tion of har­mo­ny in the af­fairs of T&T.

Lon­don said he con­tin­ued to be heart­ened by the pos­ture of the Prime Min­is­ter and her team and hoped it would be some­thing which would be sus­tained.