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Tobago’s claim on the Treasury Reginald Dumas - Arthur Dash THE EDITOR: Self-government for Tobago as proposed in the bill before Parliament is now a subject for national discussion. While focus is on the constitutional, legal and administrative issues involved in the proposed governance arrangement, not much attention is being paid by the general tax-paying public on the funding requirements for this embrace of greater autonomy by the sister island. Tobago’s fixed claim on the national finances was first established in the Tobago House of Assembly Act of 1996 when a minimum allocation of 4.03 per cent of the national budget was to be granted to the THA to be spent at the pleasure of that body without effective oversight or accountability either in Tobago or by the Parliament of TT. ....