- 3 April, 2025
PARASRAM REVEALS DEADLY NEW DISEASE
CHIEF Medical Officer Dr. Roshan Parasram is warning of “a highly-virulent, epidemic-prone disease associated with high case fatality rates.”
The illness is called Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), and death could take place “between eight and nine days.”
HOW GOVT COULD MAKE CHILDREN VACCINE MANDATORY
THE Government simply has to tinker with the schedule of a 1973 law in order to make it mandatory that school-aged children take a Covid-19 vaccine.
This could be done by the Minister of Health.
The matter does not require the approval of Parliament.
The law is the Public Health (Nursery Schools and Primary Schools Immunisation Act.
ROWLEY DETERMINES COVID-19 POLICIES
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has taken over all major decision-making with respect to Covid-19, according to Cabinet sources.
The decision to seek an extension of the State of Emergency was ratified by the Cabinet but presented and advocated by Rowley.
T&T HEADS TO VACCINE MANDATE
WITH a surfeit of Covid-19 jabs, high number of deaths and sluggish economy, Trinidad and Tobago may be heading to a vaccine mandate.
GOVT TO RELAX CURFEW?
If a decision is taken in favour of easing the curfew, it would be announced on Wednesday August 25, when Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley pilots a motion in Parliament on the State of Emergency.
THIRD PFIZER SHOT NEEDED?
WOULD recipients of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines in Trinidad and Tobago have to receive booster shots?
WHEN DID DELTA VARIANT REALLY GET TO T&T?
WITH the highly contagious Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus confirmed in 132 countries, the Trinidad and Tobago medical community is split on when it
T&T HOT AND COLD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
PATRICK Manning, as Prime Minister in 2009, showed global leadership on the urgent issue of climate change. But precious little has been done by Trinidad
HINDU CMO VS. CREMATION PYRES
DR. Roshan Parasram is a member of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most prominent Hindu families. Dr. Ramsaram’s uncle, Dr. Rampersad Parasram, is Dharmacharya of
BEWARE THE LAMBDA VARIANT!
A COVID-19 variant that is possibly resistant to vaccines could be heading to Trinidad and Tobago. The Lambda variant has been identified in the South
