Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has said it is time to pri­or­i­tize au­ton­o­my for To­ba­go and give To­ba­go the self-gov­ern­ment it de­serves.

In her fea­ture ad­dress dur­ing her in­au­gur­al vis­it to the is­land, Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo said she had not ad­dressed the top­ic in the open­ing of Par­lia­ment be­cause she want­ed to first raise it with the To­bag­on­ian com­mu­ni­ty di­rect­ly first.

She stat­ed, "At this cru­cial junc­ture in our coun­try's his­to­ry, it is our du­ty to pri­or­i­tize the is­sue of To­ba­go's au­ton­o­my on a na­tion­al lev­el."

She em­pha­sized the need for in­creased ef­forts in achiev­ing self-gov­er­nance for the is­land. "I be­lieve it is time to thor­ough­ly re­view and re­vis­it the mat­ter of To­ba­go's au­ton­o­my," she as­sert­ed, adding that she be­lieves the mo­ment has come for a fi­nal leg­isla­tive push to­wards grant­i­ng au­ton­o­my to To­ba­go.