| Farley Chavez Augustine | |
| Office: | Chief Secretary of Tobago |
| Term Start: | 8 December 2021 |
| Party: | Tobago People's Party |
| Otherparty: | Progressive Democratic Patriots (until 2023) |
| Birth Place: | Speyside, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago[1] |
Farley Chavez Augustine (born 1985) is a Tobagonian politician and educator serving as the current Chief Secretary of Tobago, the island's head of government.[2] [1] He holds the additional executive role of Secretary for Finance, Trade and the Economy.[2]
Augustine was raised in Speyside. He attended the University of the West Indies before returning to Tobago to become a high school teacher.[1]
In the December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election, the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) party, which had declared Augustine to be its candidate for Chief Secretary, won a majority in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA).[3] Augustine was thus named the Chief Secretary in 2021. In 2023, after a conflict with the PDP's leader, he formed his own party, the Tobago People's Party, to which most members of the THA defected.[4]
In 2024, the opposition Tobago Council of the People's National Movement accused Augustine of accepting bribes. Augustine denied these charges.[5]