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PNM Tobago Council Political Leader Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis says, Why should anyone believe Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar that she would consult with Chief Secretary Farley Augustine before decisions are made on Tobago, in light of the island being the seventh district of the Special Operations Bill. Cudjoe-Lewis spoke with TV6'S Elizabeth Williams .
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00:00Now, why should anybody believe the Prime Minister? Why should Tobagonians believe the Prime Minister?
00:07The legislation has already been passed the way that it already is without mentioning any consultation with the Chief Secretary,
00:17and that is already done.
00:20Kajil Lewis said only PR stunts are being dished out by the TPP.
00:25Mr. Joel Samson, representative for Tobago West, raised the matter.
00:30It was probably just for the PR purposes, because at the end of the day when committee stage came,
00:36he didn't raise the matter in committee stage to have it actually, to have his proposal or his recommendation inserted
00:42in the bill.
00:44So if Joel Samson was serious about having the Chief Secretary included, then he would have raised it at committee
00:52stage.
00:53She said the treatment of the Chief Secretary by the government may just be another radar scenario.
00:59As it relates to consultation, we may end up with another radar situation, but that isn't really my major concern
01:10here, Liz.
01:13I want to know how Tobago gets in this, because looking at the fact that tourism is our mainstay,
01:20tourism is the lifeblood of the Tobago economy, there ought to be some sort of consultation with the people of
01:27Tobago,
01:28with tourism businesses, with the different stakeholders who are responsible for driving the economy, and that has not happened.
01:36Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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