Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas says that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is like­ly to vis­it To­ba­go be­fore the end of Au­gust.

He told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the vis­it was ex­pect­ed to hap­pen as sev­er­al Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters were sched­uled to be on the is­land be­tween now and the end of the month.

“… a bar­rage of min­is­ters would be in To­ba­go be­tween now and the month’s end, which should in­clude the Prime Min­is­ter,” Thomas said.

He added that the trip will be sched­uled be­fore Par­lia­ment re­opens to al­low for con­sul­ta­tions on pend­ing mat­ters to be com­plet­ed.

So far, min­is­ters, in­clud­ing Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, and Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe, have made of­fi­cial vis­its to To­ba­go.

Since win­ning the elec­tion on April 28, Prime Min­is­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said it was im­por­tant for the cen­tral gov­ern­ment to work well with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA). She talked about hav­ing on­go­ing talks and re­spect be­tween both sides, un­like the tense re­la­tion­ship be­fore un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-led gov­ern­ment. She spoke of a team ef­fort to help To­ba­go and the whole coun­try face their prob­lems.

On May 27, Per­sad-Bisses­sar and THA Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine had a long meet­ing to talk about how to work to­geth­er for To­ba­go’s growth. A re­lease said both par­ties talked about co­op­er­a­tion and meet­ing the needs of peo­ple in To­ba­go.

To­ba­go au­ton­o­my was al­so dis­cussed.

It said the meet­ing was seen as a good step to­wards a stronger part­ner­ship be­tween the cen­tral gov­ern­ment and the THA.