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Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Hamid Ghany is set to play a key ad­vi­so­ry role in shap­ing the next phase of To­ba­go’s push for greater au­ton­o­my, fol­low­ing high-lev­el dis­cus­sions be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Ghany’s in­volve­ment comes as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with THA Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine in what of­fi­cials de­scribed as a “pro­duc­tive and for­ward-look­ing” di­a­logue on crit­i­cal is­sues af­fect­ing To­ba­go, in­clud­ing gov­er­nance re­form, wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty and in­sti­tu­tion­al ef­fi­cien­cy.

A state­ment by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said that cen­tral to the talks was the long-stand­ing is­sue of To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my, with both lead­ers agree­ing on the need to chart a clear and pro­gres­sive path for­ward.