Busy Tuesday for PM as Tobago airport, Marriott project take centre stage

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be in To­ba­go on Tues­day for the grand open­ing of the new air­port ter­mi­nal. The open­ing is sched­uled for 1 pm and will be at­tend­ed by sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine. The air­port’s open­ing has been de­scribed as a gamechang­er for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and comes less than two weeks be­fore the in­au­gur­al week­ly Toron­to-to-To­ba­go flight.

Au­gus­tine has re­peat­ed­ly said the air­port will not be the panacea to the tourism’s sec­tor, not­ing an im­prove­ment in the qual­i­ty and quan­ti­ty of the is­land’s room stock is nec­es­sary.

Sup­port on that front is close with the sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the $500 mil­lion Mar­riott re­sort at Rocky Point al­so sched­uled for Tues­day. Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Au­gus­tine are ex­pect­ed to at­tend this cer­e­mo­ny as well. The Su­pe­ri­or Ho­tels de­vel­op­ment will fea­ture a 200-room ho­tel, vil­las, town­hous­es and recre­ation­al ameni­ties.