00:00This is a collective indictment on the entire THA from 1996 to present.
00:07And I accept the responsibility, I accept the blame, and I pledge before God on you to fix the problem
00:15so that it doesn't befall anyone else.
00:19Mr. Agustin said the indictment on the THA brings to the fore the need for Tobago's autonomy.
00:26Tobago, we just have to get our autonomy.
00:30And we have to decide that if we're not getting it now, we will take it by any means necessary
00:36because without our autonomy, we are depending on a parliament in Trinidad
00:43to decide how we give benefits to our own members.
00:47The chief secretary is promising to make things right.
00:50And so the pledge we must make as Tobago owners is that it's a George Stanley Baird pledge
00:57that by the hook or by the crook, we are going to get our autonomy
01:01to ensure that we could decide for ourselves how we honor our own Tobago heroes
01:07so that no one else would have to pass on like George Stanley Baird
01:11and not get thoroughly what's due unto them.
01:1574-year-old George Stanley Baird, former schoolteacher and secretary for tourism,
01:21was laid to rest on Thursday at the Bacolet Cemetery.
01:24Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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