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- 22 December, 2024
DISCREDITED PARASRAM HOLDS ON AS CMO
IN the increasingly peculiar Trinidad and Tobago society, a holder of the highest honour has had a major policy measure overturned and discredited by the court.
COPS PLAN CARNIVAL SICK-OUT
FRUSTRATED police officers are planning a sick-out on Carnival days to protest the non-payment of their long-overdue backpay.
Around 7,000 officers are owed some $300 million.
52 POLICE RECRUITS CATCH COVID
There has been no announcement of the Covid-19 outbreak by Police Commissioner Earla Harewood-Christopher, National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds or Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh.
VACCINE CARD RACKET RAGES
THE arrests of two people for possession of Covid-19 vaccination cards are just the tip of a raging national racket, according to senior police sources.
The police held a man and a woman and fake vaccination cards.
Two weeks earlier, Terry Garib, a former PNM local government election candidate, was arrested and charged with forgery of immunisation cards with intent to deceive.
POLITICAL COVID ROW IN SANDO WORSENS
South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA), which denied permission for vaccines to be administered at Gulf View Community Centre, granted approval for a similar exercise at Fonclaire Pan Theatre in the southern city.
The Gulf View initiative was organised by Opposition Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial.
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.
HOW THE EXTENDED SoE WOULD HURT BUSINESS
In Trinidad and Tobago, the curfew has seriously hurt restaurants, cafes, gyms, nightclubs, vendors, entertainers, vendors, taxi drivers, auto care and more. Supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and other retail operations have been made to close as early as 6 p.m., and send home workers.
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.
SoE SHOWDOWN LOOMS IN PARLIAMENT
EXPECT a showdown in the House of Representatives next Wednesday when the Government moves to extend the State of Emergency by three months.
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.
