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Ripe Chenette wrote:New condiment?! Standard Pnm Ketchup and Unc Mustard, experimental GG Garlic sauce on the way, now PDP cucumber.
Betting $200 on a slight pepper party.
zoom rader wrote:All Duke need to do is just take one red hot stop seat.
Already two in the bag and one will do in Trini.
Duke is not UNCSuperiorMan wrote:zoom rader wrote:All Duke need to do is just take one red hot stop seat.
Already two in the bag and one will do in Trini.
Heard the same about Ashworth Jack. Duke is no Panday.
So its OK for a Trinidad party to run bago but not the other way around?agent007 wrote:I applaud Duke however I don’t think Trinidadians are prepared to pay $600. for CAL air bridge tickets nor apply for a VISA to visit Tobago lol…but jokes aside, I don’t think we need a Tobagonian party to possibly run for and win an elections to form a government in charge of a treasury to finance an island that lobbied for self governance and they are in absolutely no position to make demands for anything right now. Let’s see where this goes.
Well I would think that's logical not so? Trinidad finances Tobago. The $50M x 2 that went into the Tobago Tourism sector as a result of the pandemic came from the Treasury which is largely supported by the people of Trinidad (and this is just 1 out of the countless examples eh). The THA siphones money from our treasury unto their parallel governance system. The whole model set up to fail from the onset.zoom rader wrote:So its OK for a Trinidad party to run bago but not the other way around?agent007 wrote:I applaud Duke however I don’t think Trinidadians are prepared to pay $600. for CAL air bridge tickets nor apply for a VISA to visit Tobago lol…but jokes aside, I don’t think we need a Tobagonian party to possibly run for and win an elections to form a government in charge of a treasury to finance an island that lobbied for self governance and they are in absolutely no position to make demands for anything right now. Let’s see where this goes.
Dats why Bago will never allow a Trinidad party to ever rule them again.
The $50m x2 was carefully calculated to be given to red government tourism operators and not the people of Tobago.agent007 wrote:Well I would think that's logical not so? Trinidad finances Tobago. The $50M x 2 that went into the Tobago Tourism sector as a result of the pandemic came from the Treasury which is largely supported by the people of Trinidad (and this is just 1 out of the countless examples eh). The THA siphones money from our treasury unto their parallel governance system. The whole model set up to fail from the onset.zoom rader wrote:So its OK for a Trinidad party to run bago but not the other way around?agent007 wrote:I applaud Duke however I don’t think Trinidadians are prepared to pay $600. for CAL air bridge tickets nor apply for a VISA to visit Tobago lol…but jokes aside, I don’t think we need a Tobagonian party to possibly run for and win an elections to form a government in charge of a treasury to finance an island that lobbied for self governance and they are in absolutely no position to make demands for anything right now. Let’s see where this goes.
Dats why Bago will never allow a Trinidad party to ever rule them again.
IMO it would be dangerous for a Tobago led government to control the treasury when their input into said treasury is very little to zero.
Of course...if I talking kaka I would appreciate someone takes me to school on the matter.
The proposed financing arrangements for Tobago in the Constitution (Amendment) (Tobago Self-Government) Bill are not balanced and fair in relation to financing for Trinidad with a proposed eight percent allocation “not linked in any way to the economic situation or prospects of Tobago or even Trinidad.”
So argued economist, Professor Vanus James, at a public town meeting on Monday night hosted by the group, Tobago in Crisis, to discuss the draft Bill intended to give Tobago self-government. James was one of three speakers who discussed the itemised Bill (Tobago Bill) at a public forum at the Scarborough Library, the others being Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie, and political commentator Winford James.
James, in arguing that the Tobago Bill “gives to the Tobago legislature a budget allocation many times higher than the Gross Domestic Product of Tobago,” noted that this was different to the provisions for Trinidad.
“The issues raised by the Fourth schedule have a bearing on arrangements for financing of Tobago. The eight percent is not linked in any way to the economic situation or prospects of Tobago or even Trinidad. And if you are talking about unfairness, inequality equality of status, and so on, then you have to ensure the provisions that you make for Tobago and for Trinidad are balanced, fair and equitable.
sMASH wrote:If tobagonians work at their tourism sector, and develop their petroleum, they don't need Trinidad.
They have more tourism potential than Barbados, if managed well... But with gas to work with, additionally.
Country_Bookie wrote:Tobago comprises less than 4% of our total population but they receive more than 4% of the national budget. Their last allocation was $2.4Bn or 4.5%. The objective of Duke and the PDP is to get 8% of the national budget, so almost twice what they receive now. If they succeed, it means less money to be spent in Trinidad so more suffering for us.
As the article below highlights, that 8% is much greater than the size of their actual economy. They looking to exploit the strategic advantage of their 2 seats so they could live off the money from Trinidad while they continue to contribute very little.The proposed financing arrangements for Tobago in the Constitution (Amendment) (Tobago Self-Government) Bill are not balanced and fair in relation to financing for Trinidad with a proposed eight percent allocation “not linked in any way to the economic situation or prospects of Tobago or even Trinidad.”
So argued economist, Professor Vanus James, at a public town meeting on Monday night hosted by the group, Tobago in Crisis, to discuss the draft Bill intended to give Tobago self-government. James was one of three speakers who discussed the itemised Bill (Tobago Bill) at a public forum at the Scarborough Library, the others being Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie, and political commentator Winford James.
James, in arguing that the Tobago Bill “gives to the Tobago legislature a budget allocation many times higher than the Gross Domestic Product of Tobago,” noted that this was different to the provisions for Trinidad.
“The issues raised by the Fourth schedule have a bearing on arrangements for financing of Tobago. The eight percent is not linked in any way to the economic situation or prospects of Tobago or even Trinidad. And if you are talking about unfairness, inequality equality of status, and so on, then you have to ensure the provisions that you make for Tobago and for Trinidad are balanced, fair and equitable.
sMASH wrote:Ripe Chenette wrote:New condiment?! Standard Pnm Ketchup and Unc Mustard, experimental GG Garlic sauce on the way, now PDP cucumber.
Betting $200 on a slight pepper party.
bhandania ting
Sad but true.I hope they get over the calcutta ship chain up that ketchup puts on themzoom rader wrote:You all have to understand that the red government created the dependency syndrome. They created Tobago tobe a slave plantation .
Tobago asking for more that what they worth is all part of red government ministers enriching themselves.
The real folks of Tobago don't see that money
zoom rader wrote:Before 1962 , Tobago was a self supporting Islands. They were in to fishing & farming ,supplying the other islands and UK with produce.
Then came the red government with massa day done BS . They pulled bago ppl away from farming and put them in to government and THA jobs. They killed farming.
They also killed Bago Skilled workers in the building industry. Image injun workers are being imported to work in the building industry. Trinidad injun contractors getting the bago jobs.
So tell me what the red government has done for Bago?
Bago has every right to take what is theirs , these people have been abused.
zoom rader wrote:Before 1962 , Tobago was a self supporting Islands. They were in to fishing & farming ,supplying the other islands and UK with produce.
Then came the red government with massa day done BS . They pulled bago ppl away from farming and put them in to government and THA jobs. They killed farming.
They also killed Bago Skilled workers in the building industry. Image injun workers are being imported to work in the building industry. Trinidad injun contractors getting the bago jobs.
So tell me what the red government has done for Bago?
Bago has every right to take what is theirs , these people have been abused.
That Billions of $$$ does not reach or serve the people of Tobago.De Dragon wrote:zoom rader wrote:Before 1962 , Tobago was a self supporting Islands. They were in to fishing & farming ,supplying the other islands and UK with produce.
Then came the red government with massa day done BS . They pulled bago ppl away from farming and put them in to government and THA jobs. They killed farming.
They also killed Bago Skilled workers in the building industry. Image injun workers are being imported to work in the building industry. Trinidad injun contractors getting the bago jobs.
So tell me what the red government has done for Bago?
Bago has every right to take what is theirs , these people have been abused.
And they get it every year to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars, for which we have no accounting for. This facilitates million dollar ropes, Manta Lodge purchases and Shirvan Developments. It needs to STOP. EVERYONE is entitled to their fair share, but your fair share comes with the very basic responsibility to account for it.
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