OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 330 25th October 2018 | Page 38

OMG Digital Magazine | 330 | Thursday 25 October 2018 • PAGE 38
Participants of the Vocational Skills Graduation Programme celebrate with a dance routine at the Shaw Park Complex (October 10, 2018).
MORIAH SCORES BIG
The Moriah Police Youth Club stole the spotlight last night
(October 23) at the Tobago Youth Awards 2018, picking
up two of the three categories for youth organisations.
The club won both the Most Improved Youth Organisation
and Most Outstanding Youth Organisation accolades
during the event at the Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf
Resort. This recognition came for its work in transforming
the lives of youth in the community and environs.
Winning Most Effective Youth Programme/Project was the
Youth Construction Programme, a joint venture between
the NGO TT Youths Will Rise and Duchris Construction.
Other standout winners included National Youth Award
recipient Je’Vaughn Arnold, who took the Agriculture
category, along with student athlete Beyoncé Moses
(Youth Triumph) and Latoyaa Roberts-Thomas (Youth
Mentor), who is president of the Tobago Youth Council.
During the function, the nominees got some timely advice
from Secretary of Sport and Youth Affairs, Jomo Pitt, who
said their successes are testimony that young people are
persevering and achieving With the full proclamation of
the Public Procurement Regulations Act soon to come
into effect, stakeholders in Tobago attended a workshop
on Friday (October 19) to get up to date with the
requirements of the Act.
During the workshop, Office of the Procurement
Regulation (OPR) Corporate Secretary Derlene Liverpool-
Young said the Act was designed to govern the process
of public procurement, retention and disposal of public
property. “It also establishes the Office of Procurement
Regulation and repeals the Central Tenders Board Act.
Underpinning the Act are principles of good governance,
fairness, equity, accountability, transparency, integrity
and value for money.”
The OPR can investigate and audit the procurement
process once public property is involved, if a member of the
public issues a complaint. It ensures there is compliance
with the Act. The OPR also has special functions, including
the publication of a list of ineligible contractors.
“The Office of the Procurement Regulation can add
suppliers and contractors to this list, where the supplier
or contractors consistently fail to provide satisfactory
performance or is found to be indulging in corrupt
practices,” she said.
The OPR is also mandated to maintain a procurement
German visitors sample dasheen ice cream at the Tobago
Blue Food Festival, which took place on Sunday (October
21, 2018) at the Bloody Bay Recreation Ground. excellence
despite the country’s economic challenges. “This is the
time for us to show the strength of our character, the
mettle of who we are,” Pitt said. “We’re from a little island
called Tobago, many of the parents of the nominees grew
up in an era when hard times were part of the course and
yet still they were able to make it,” Pitt said.