Tobago Community Up In Arms

Plans to establish a drug rehabilitation centre in Goodwood, a community of about 1,000 people in East Tobago, have been met with opposition from some villagers.

Arnold Des Vignes, president of the Goodwood Village Council, told the Sunday Express in a telephone interview, "As far as the people of Goodwood are concerned, they don't want it here."

But Fitzherbert Phillips, president of Scarborough and Environs Action Group, the driving force behind the establishment of the centre, argues that this project will help deal with one of Tobago's most pervasive threats.

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