RAQUEL RICHARDSON JOHNSON S mornings begin with a plea to the heavens, the mother of three praying to God that her family of five will escape the grip of financial turmoil
Young men have been encouraged to start their own businesses and be their own boss by ACP Collis Hazel, the head of the Tobago Division. “When you work for yourself, you call the shots. You are your own boss. Nobody comes to you and tell you anything. You know your own brand and you know
Andy Cole and Walter, one of the dogs killed, in happier times.
Andy Cole of Pleasant Prospect told Newsday that on February 8 he had three dogs. Now only one remains after the other two were allegedly poisoned and he had to watch them die.
Cole recounted that a week earlier, on his usual walk from Pleasant Prospect to the beach at Beach Rock, one of the dogs saw a goat tied in front of a house and walked up to it, curious, and barked.
He said the goat wasn’t really bothered, but he heard a woman shouting, Those dogs should be chained.
CAMILLE McEACHNIE
The Second Sitting of the Tobago House of Assembly’s (THA) Legislature, scheduled to continue voting for a Presiding Officer on February 1, 2021, resulted in another deadlock.
The People’s National Movement (PNM) is proposing a new candidate for presiding officer.
The first Sitting took place last week, on Thursday 28 January 2021.
The PNM and the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP), who were sworn in by President Paula-Mae Weekes on January 28th, nominated Ingrid Melville and Julien Skeete, respectively, for the post of Presiding Officer.
Both parties won six seats each at the January 25th THA elections, a deadlock unparalleled in Tobago’s history.