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A Call For Greater Autonomy

“We have a disaster of this magnitude and you realise that I keep saying well we have to take the sample, send it to Trinidad, we have to get equipment we don’t have on the island to match a tier two type disaster”

Amidst the oil spill clean-up and containment efforts, there’s a call for Tobago to be granted greater autonomy. At a THA press conference held on Thursday, Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said specialist equipment is required for a Tier-Two level disaster response in Tobago and that equipment needed to come from Trinidad. This resulted in the THA’s delayed response to the situation. [WATCH MORE]