Minister: TT’s Consumer Policy to be revised

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Consumer Affairs Department of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) and the Ministry of Legal Affairs’ Consumer Affairs Division is to be revisited.

According to Minister of Legal Affairs Camille Robinson-Regis, the Consumer Policy for Trinidad and Tobago will also be revised “with a more significant input from Tobago.” The whole issue of unfavourable insurance company practices will also be reviewed. Robinson-Regis said these concerns were addressed at a recent meeting with THA Secretary for Consumer Affairs, Neil Wilson. She said discussions were also held with senior officials of the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) with respect to the relocation of the District Registrar’s office to the Scarborough Hospital. This, she noted, is expected to help decrease the incidence of unregistered births as well as the late registration of births. The minister made the disclosures in Tobago yesterday when she officially launched the Consumer Education in Primary Schools’ pilot projects.