As Trinidadians, we often want to ‘move on’ when difficult issues arise. We seldom wish to examine how public injustices happen. Instead, we accuse all who stop to explore the wreckage since we do not want ‘to play the blame game’. This tendency is why our nation took 14 years …
Read More »‘Fake, scurrilous and misleading!’ Dr Browne hits back at Guyanese criticism of Dr Rowley
“[…] The statement of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry as published in the Guyanese media also makes references to Prime Minister [Dr Keith] Rowley that are completely false and appear to simply repeat the fake narrative of Dr [Leslie] Ramsammy. “Further, that Chamber Statement’s disgusting slur to the …
Read More »Media Monitor: Minister’s mistakes and a mess of missed opportunities
CCN’s Anthony Wilson missed an opportunity to cover himself in media glory on Saturday. Responding to a question from the Express Business editor, Prime Minister Dr Keith Christopher Rowley asked rhetorically: “Yuh want somebody to blame? Blame me.” People knowledgeable about boxing might call that leading with your chin. But …
Read More »Daly Bread: Vaccines, variants and variables
It comes as no surprise that our experts have provisionally concluded that the P1 (Brazilian) variant of the Covid-19 virus has expanded within our borders; and, according to Professor Christine Carrington, ‘is the dominant strain right now’. In last Tuesday’s Trinidad Express, the professor reportedly stated that ‘testing since …
Read More »Noble: Counting our losses; after months following the science, why did minister zigzag?
This week has been awfully long. How the worm has turned! On Thursday 3 June, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced that US vice-president Kamala Harris had promised a substantial vaccine donation. On Saturday 5 June, he informed that the country had secured 800,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines with an …
Read More »MSJ: Health minister has botched vaccine roll-out, new thinking and leadership is required
“[…] It should have been obvious to the minister of health that with all the deaths, the high number of cases and the reported dominance of the Brazilian variant, most people would want to be vaccinated. Get vaccinated has been the message for several weeks and citizens heeded the call. …
Read More »Daly Bread: Limiting persuasive reach and blame to share around on our worrying future
It is clear now that the pandemic began to get the better of us in March and April and succeeded in surging to almost overwhelming proportions in the just concluded month of May. Although prematurely boastful, we appeared to have done well in restraining the advance of the pandemic for …
Read More »Live Wire Chronicles: Covid-19 measures vs Covid-19 plans, devilish Davlin, and forgetful Faris
Trinidad and Tobago’s Covid-19 vaccination drive will lose two days of implementation this week due to a rescheduling forced upon the Ministry of Health by the state of emergency regulations, which in itself was designed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. In other words, to repeat a quip …
Read More »Health and education ministries reschedule holiday vaccinations, due to PM’s new SoE amendments
The Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education have rescheduled all Covid-19 vaccination appointments on Monday 31 May and Thursday 3 June—the Indian Arrival Day and Corpus Christi holidays respectively—after the operations of its public health facilities were severely curtailed by an amendment to the state of emergency regulations this …
Read More »Noble: Polarising a nation—are we trying to help our country, or ourselves?
It is indisputable that Covid-19 represents the most significant health and economic threat faced in this generation. We have had raging arguments about the effects of efforts to contain the virus. Achieving the scale of the required changes in personal behaviour is challenging, but such changes are integral to success. …
Read More »Unappreciated nurses, missing test kits, tent life, and ICU trauma: Covid-19 vs MoH
“[…] When you see tents set up [outside hospitals] is when your health system is overwhelmed, but we were using tents from day one! These billion dollar facilities we have and they are not designed to treat infectious diseases. “[…] And the tents are another story. They are sweltering hot …
Read More »Covid counter: 15 deaths and 250 cases from 506 tests; T&T receive 9,000 vaccines from Bermuda
Trinidad and Tobago suffered 15 more deaths related to Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, which brought the total number of fatalities to 390 since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. There have been 221 deaths this month so far. The Ministry of Health also confirmed 250 new …
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