To­bag­o­ni­ans liv­ing on the east­ern side of the is­land will no longer have the bur­den to spend hours trav­el­ing to and from Scar­bor­ough to do busi­ness­es at gov­ern­ment of­fices.

This was an­nounced when the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) of­fi­cial­ly opened the Rox­bor­ough Ad­min­is­tra­tive Com­plex on Thurs­day.

Chief Ad­min­is­tra­tor of the THA, Bernadette Solomon- Ko­ro­ma said the fa­cil­i­ty was con­struct­ed at a cost of $33 mil­lion.

Work start­ed in 2017.

She said ser­vices at the Li­cense Of­fice, The Reg­is­trar of Births and Deaths, T&TEC and So­cial Wel­fare.

The Board of In­land Rev­enue, Postal Ser­vice and the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion, among oth­ers, would be housed at the new fa­cil­i­ty.

Sec­re­tary of In­fra­struc­ture Quar­ries and the En­vi­ron­ment, Kwe­si Des Vi­gnes said the build­ing was done us­ing a To­ba­go con­trac­tor and two lo­cal sub­con­trac­tors from the area.

He said 75 per­sons from the area were em­ployed and $5 mil­lion paid in wages to lo­cal labour.

Des Vi­gnes said To­ba­go has the skills to un­der­take sev­er­al projects es­pe­cial­ly for the de­vel­op­ment of east and north To­ba­go.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the THA Kelvin Charles said the THA is com­mit­ted to the cre­ation of an ur­ban cen­tre in Rox­bor­ough he said the area would soon get a new fire sta­tion and po­lice sta­tion be­ing built at a com­bined cost of $86 mil­lion.

He said the THA would be turn­ing the sod to start con­struc­tion of a mi­ni-hos­pi­tal in the area that will be built at a cost of $60 mil­lion.

Charles urged To­bag­o­ni­ans to start get­ting cer­ti­fied for the area of skills they pos­sessed.

He called on par­ents and guardian to en­sure the next gen­er­a­tion of To­bag­o­ni­ans are ed­u­cat­ed and skilled in all ar­eas that would dri­ve the is­land's de­vel­op­ment for­ward.