Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly
Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly | |
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Style | Presiding Officer (Within Parliament) The Honourable (Formal) |
Term length | Elected by the Tobago House of Assembly at the start of each session, and upon a vacancy, no limits imposed |
Inaugural holder | Jefferson G. Davidson Christo Gift (Deputy Presiding Officer) |
Formation | 1996 |
Deputy | Deputy Presiding Officers |
Salary | TT$20,890 (per month) (Presiding Officer) TT$13,930 (per month) (Deputy Presiding Officer)[2] |
Trinidad and Tobago portal |
The Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly is elected by the assembly members and presides over all Sittings of the assembly.[3]
Oswald Williams of the People's National Movement is the current Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly from 22 October 2020 until 28 January 2021.
List of Presiding Officers
Name | Term of office | Political Party | Notes | ||
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style="background:Template:National Alliance for Reconstruction/meta/color; color:black;" |1 | Jefferson Davidson | 16 December 1986 | 2000 | NAR | |
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |2 | Anne Mitchell-Gift | 2001 | 24 January 2013 | PNM | |
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |3 | Kelvin Charles | 25 January 2013 | 23 March 2016 | PNM | |
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |4 | Vanessa Cutting-Thomas | 28 April 2016 | 26 January 2017 | PNM | |
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |5 | Denise Tsoiafatt Angus | 26 January 2017 | 21 November 2019 | PNM | |
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |(4) | Vanessa Cutting-Thomas | 19 December 2019 | 25 September 2020[4] | PNM | |
vacant | |||||
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" |6 | Oswald Williams | 22 October 2020[5] | 28 January 2021 | PNM |
List of Deputy Presiding Officers
Name | Term of office | Political Party | Electoral District | Notes | Name | Entered office | Left office | Political Party | Electoral District | Notes | |||
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style="background:Template:National Alliance for Reconstruction/meta/color; color:black;" | | Christo Gift | 1996 | 2000 | NAR | |||||||||
vacant | |||||||||||||
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" | | Anthony Arnold | 2001 | 2005 | PNM | |||||||||
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" | | Albert Pilgrim | 2005 | 24 January 2013 | PNM | Black Rock/Whim/Spring Garden | ||||||||
style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" | | Ancil Dennis | 25 January 2013 | 5 May 2020 | PNM | Buccoo/Mount Pleasant | style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" | | Dion Isaac | 25 January 2013 | 26 January 2017 | PNM | |||
vacant
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style="background:Template:Tobago Council of the People's National Movement/meta/color; color:black;" | | Shomari Hector | 29 May 2020 | 28 January 2021 | PNM | Bethel/Mt. Irvine |
See also
- Chief Secretary of Tobago
- List of Presiding Officers of the Tobago House of Assembly
- Local government in Trinidad and Tobago
- Politics of Trinidad and Tobago
- Presiding Officer (disambiguation page)
- Tobago House of Assembly
References
- ^ "New THA Presiding Officer appointed". www.guardian.co.tt. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "DRAFT ESTIMATES OF THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE 2019" (PDF). Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ "About The Assembly". Tobago House of Assembly. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ Williams, Elizabeth. "Presiding Officer Resigns". Caribbean Communications Network. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ "New THA Presiding Officer appointed". www.guardian.co.tt. Retrieved 27 October 2020.