CONVENTION RESOLUTION AT SIGNAL HILL COMPREHENSIVE Be it Resolved that this Convention of the People of Tobago, meeting here at the Signal Hill Secondary School, today, September 14th 2014, A. agrees and asserts that the issues fundamental to Democratic Self Government for Tobago include, inter alia; 1. Responsibility of the Tobago Administration to formulate and implement policy on all matters affectring the lives of people resident in Tobago 2. Equality of Status between the islands and a constitutional, legislative and administrative framework reflecting such equality 3. A Federal - Type System of governance 4. Definition of the boundaries of each island 5. Jurisdiction and control over economic resources in Tobago’s defined geographic space 6. Freedom for the Tobago Administration to make laws to govern Tobago 7. Ability to borrow to fund Tobago’s Development 8. Authority and responsibility in the Tobago Administration to formulate and implement fiscal policy, including taxation measures 9. Removal of Cabinet dominance and over-ride of decisions made in Tobago by the Tobago Administration 10. Legal framework providing for the wider participation of society in the decision making process of the Tobago Administration 11. Management and control of the inter-island transportation systems to reside in Tobago B. do hereby authorise, instruct and mandate the Forum of Political Leaders to take all proper and nescesary steps to achieve and secure Democratic Self Government to Tobago in the shortest possible time C. requires that the Forum ensures that the Self Government secured for Tobago includes the appropriate provisions to treat with issues agreed and asserted in A (i to xi) above.
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