Chief Secretary of Tobago

Chief Secretary of Tobago
Incumbent Farley Chavez Augustine since 9 December 2021; 2 years ago (2021-12-09)
Style	Chief Secretary (informal) The Honourable (formal)
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CS
Member of	Tobago House of Assembly Cabinet
Reports to	Tobago House of Assembly
Residence	Office of the Chief Secretary
Seat	Scarborough, Tobago
Nominator	Tobago House of Assembly
Appointer	President of Trinidad and Tobago
Term length	The Chief Secretary is nominated among the Assembly following quadrennial elections to the Assembly or resignation of the previous Chief Secretary
Formation	4 December 1980; 43 years ago (1980-12-04)
First holder	ANR Robinson AM
Succession	7th in order of precedence[citation needed]
Deputy	Faith B. Yisrael
Salary	TT$492,360 per annum[1]
Website	www.tha.gov.tt/divisions/office-of-the-chief-secretary/

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The Chief Secretary of Tobago is the leader of the Tobagonian Government.^[2] The Chief Secretary chairs the Tobagonian Cabinet and is primarily responsible for the formulation, development and presentation of Tobagonian Government policy. Additional functions of the Chief Secretary include promoting and representing Tobago in an official capacity, at home and abroad, and responsibility for constitutional affairs, as they relate to devolution and the Tobagonian Government.

The Chief Secretary is a Member of the Assembly, and is nominated by the Tobago House of Assembly before bring officially appointed by the President. Members of the Tobagonian Cabinet as well as councilors of the Tobagonian Government are appointed by the Chief Secretary. As head of the Tobagonian Government, the Chief Secretary is directly accountable to the Tobago House of Assembly for their actions and the actions of the Tobagonian Government.

The official office of the Chief Secretary is in Calder Hall Road, Scarborough, Tobago as well as the Tobago House of Assembly on Jermingham Street.

The current Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly is Mr. Farley Chavez Augustine of the Progressive Democratic Patriots, he assumed the chair on December 9, 2021.