Government
Local Government functions in Tobago are handled by the Tobago House of Assembly. The current Chief Secretary of the THA is Orville London. The People's National Movement controls 8 seats in the Assembly, while the Tobago Organization of the People controls the 4 other seats.
There are two parliamentary seats, Tobago East and Tobago West which are controlled by the TOP, winning them in the general elections in Trinidad and Tobago on May 24, 2010.
Tobago featured in the international press in early 2007 for its establishment of a Minister of Mental Health. Minister Ellen Tang was appointed on the first anniversary of the launch of the Happiness Project. Her aide, Melody Williams, has been allocated a major proportion of the annual housing funding to revamp government housing projects all over the island.
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