Hours be­fore a sched­uled meet­ing with San­dals Re­sorts own­er Adam Stew­art, Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), Far­ley Au­gus­tine, made it clear: if San­dals is se­ri­ous about rein­vest­ing in To­ba­go, the lux­u­ry ho­tel chain must bring its own mon­ey.

“Come with your own US dol­lars, in­vest here, and do it on terms that re­spect the peo­ple of To­ba­go.”

Au­gus­tine made the state­ment dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing last night, as San­dals looks to rein­tro­duce its pro­pos­al for the is­land. He ex­pressed frus­tra­tion with the cen­tral gov­ern­ment’s lack of sup­port for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor.