Tobago game wardens ‘appointed’ after 50 years

Game Wardens in Tobago, who have all been working in “temporary” positions in some cases as far back as the 1950s, have now been regularised. The longstanding vexing issue, over which the disgruntled wardens have been agitated for years, was recently resolved via a Cabinet Note, according to Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly, Orville London. 

According to the Cabinet Note, dated July 17, six Game Wardens I and one Game Warden II have now been “appointed” in Tobago. “These ‘temporary’ game wardens, some of them, who had been temporary from as far back as the 1950s, their positions have now been regularised,” he disclosed. “That has now been settled and the game wardens, who were extremely frustrated, and justifiably so, can now have their appointments,” London told Newsday during an interview last Friday following discussions between the Public Service Commission and a THA delegation at the THA Administrative Complex at Calder Hall.