- 11 April, 2025
DOUBLE PAIN OF OUR CANCER PATIENTS
A FEMALE police officer recently pleaded in the media for money for cancer surgery. A few days earlier, another national, a mere teenager, died at a hospital halfway around the world, where he had flown for urgent cancer care.
WHAT MODEL NATION?
On Independence Day, Williams said “democracy means protection of the weak against the strong”, but T&T is losing its middle class, as the rich grow richer and the ranks of the working poor and unemployed keep swelling.
A BAD DAY FOR ROWLEY AND THE MEDIA
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is too seasoned and elderly to conduct the people’s business with such an unseemly temperament.
UDECOTT BREACHES CONTRACT RULES FOR POS HOSPITAL
EVIDENCE has revealed that State enterprise Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDECOTT) entertained a bid for a major contract after the official deadline.
VACCINE RULES FOR T&T?
In T&T, Rowley is facing opposition from some unvaccinated people in both the public and private sectors.
The teachers’ union has opposed proposed regulations to mandate vaccinations for the school community.
A trade union has threatened legal action against Republic Bank’s directive that corporate clients send only vaccinated representatives to do business.
There are vocal opponents of the Covid-19 jab on social media, with some arguing that the vaccination infringes their democratic rights and could affect their health.
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.
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.
FLOODS AGAIN – WHILE GOVT HAS $M FOR DREDGING
The heavy and prolonged gush of water over the districts and run off from the Northern Range led to floods that were almost one foot high in some places and lingered for several agonising days.
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.
