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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Farley could shake-up THA exec tomorrow

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Elizabeth Gonzales
375 days ago
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THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine

THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) reshuf­fle will re­port­ed­ly hap­pen to­mor­row.

A lit­tle over two years af­ter it was an­nounced, the THA Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil is set to be reshuf­fled in an an­nounce­ment, a source told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day. The source said all sec­re­taries were re­port­ed­ly told which po­si­tions would be ad­just­ed and which would re­main the same.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine called all his sec­re­taries in­to in­di­vid­ual meet­ings last Fri­day and in­formed them that he would let them know which po­si­tions would be ad­just­ed by yes­ter­day.

Yes­ter­day, each sec­re­tary and as­sis­tant sec­re­tary were called in­to a meet­ing and they were told which po­si­tions would be ad­just­ed.

Guardian Me­dia, how­ev­er, was un­able to get an idea of which changes were made.

Speak­ing to the me­dia last night, Au­gus­tine on­ly hint­ed at some­thing ex­cit­ing about to hap­pen, with­out say­ing any­thing else.

But a source said the reshuf­fle is set and the of­fi­cial state­ment was be­ing fi­nalised and may hap­pen dur­ing the post-Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil me­dia brief­ing to­mor­row.

The im­pend­ing reshuf­fle was first men­tioned in De­cem­ber 2022.

At that time, Au­gus­tine said the aim was to ef­fec­tive­ly im­ple­ment the man­dates and pledges made to the peo­ple of To­ba­go, af­ter spend­ing a year in of­fice and eval­u­at­ing what works and what needs im­prove­ment.

Then in Jan­u­ary 2023, Au­gus­tine said he would as­sess the roles of each sec­re­tary, look­ing at their strengths to im­prove man­age­ment with­in the THA. In March, he again hint­ed at struc­tur­al changes.

Last No­vem­ber, THA mi­nor­i­ty leader Kelvon Mor­ris called for the reshuf­fle to hap­pen, say­ing, “The time has come for the Chief Sec­re­tary to re­view the func­tions of all the var­i­ous di­vi­sions of the THA and per­haps do some reshuf­fling. There are To­bag­o­ni­ans who are out there and ex­pe­ri­enced, will­ing able and ca­pa­ble.”

In re­sponse, Au­gus­tine told Mor­ris the con­struct of his ex­ec­u­tive was none of his busi­ness.


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