“[…] For the winters, your accommodation costs should budget to cover heating and electricity. The best-case scenario is finding accommodation at a fixed cost provided by your employer. “[…] Never raise your voice loudly to appear to be shouting at anyone in the workplace. Do not wave your hands/arms around …
Read More »‘A spectacular failure of communication’; MSJ knocks PM for failing to ‘provide proposals’ on crisis
“[…] Leaders are supposed to provide proposals and take actions that offer a way forward, to tell us how we can get out of a crisis situation. They are to offer hope and inspire us to do what is necessary. “Dr Keith Rowley did none of this last night. It …
Read More »Dr Rowley: ‘We have reached a critical crossroad…’ (Full address)
“[…] The current seven-day rolling average of positive cases, as of 22 November 2021, is 518 cases per day… This represents the longest consistent period of increasing rolling average manifested since the plateau of cases began in July. “[…] As the demand on health care resources increases, we may have …
Read More »Daly Bread: A land of desperate excuses; what about Johns Hopkins programme, Minister?
‘[…] Given the low rate of vaccination, our population is wide open to death or hospitalisation from the Delta variant…’ That was bluntly stated in my column of 5 September, ten weeks ago, with the foresight that the Government would helplessly wait around—self-praise tying up its brain, while its bouffes …
Read More »Gonzales: Vaccine hesitancy torpedoed 2021 SSFL season; Jamaica student athletes all vaccinated
Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) president Merere Gonzales has suggested that vaccine hesitancy among Trinidad and Tobago’s student population could be a key factor in the Government’s decision to block schools football for the second successive season. Gonzales said the SSFL executive had been in communication with the ministries of …
Read More »UFCTT denies ‘leading role’ in coaches march against restrictions, working on ‘Back to Play’ policy
“[…] The UFCTT is in the process of reaching out to other sporting disciplines to come together to develop a ‘Back to Play’ policy. The document will be sent to the Ministry of Sport who, with the guidance of the Ministry of Health, can fine-tune and make available to the …
Read More »MoH attempts to clarify ‘safe zone’ businesses, alcohol consumption still ‘strictly prohibited’
“[…] Owners, Operators and Customers of the above businesses are reminded as follows: The consumption of any food or drink and/or in house dining on the premises of the businesses listed above is permitted only if the businesses meet the requirements of the Safe Zone policy as delineated in Regulation 6 of …
Read More »Best: Picking sense out of MoH nonsense; Dr Fuad Khan’s broadside at Piarco Covid system
“This makes no sense,” Dr Fuad Khan thunders at one point in his latest online sermon. “Whoever did this system is a dunce! Is time to get rid ah dese fools in the Ministry of Health.” It’s not easy to decide which set of fools is more wearisome, harder to …
Read More »‘Caring for others comes naturally to me’: Day in the life of a midwife
“[…] The workload has become much heavier since the lockdown. We are now experiencing the backlash of the pandemic lockdown from last year—an increase in deliveries tripling the usual birth rate! “Normally for the first half of the year, the birth rate usually reduces, but for this year it has …
Read More »Dear Editor: Months of missed opportunities: how Deyalsingh and his experts dropped the ball
“[…] Evidence suggests a very strong link between Covid-19 and obesity. In March 2021, the Independent, Sky News and Reuters published an article which highlighted that 90% of Covid-19 deaths were in countries with high obesity rates (in 2018, T&T was ranked 6th in childhood obesity in the Caribbean at …
Read More »Noble: The virus and our democracy—the problem with ‘us’ and ‘them’
The Covid-19 pandemic hit our shores at the wrong time. Indeed, there is no right time, but the state of our nation had made us incredibly vulnerable. We were in a crisis, adjusting to the economic woes and experiencing lowered trust levels in our leaders. In the heat of Covid-19, …
Read More »Two returning nationals test positive for Delta variant; unvaccinated travellers came from USA and Mexico
Trinidad and Tobago has its first two confirmed cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant. The Ministry of Health revealed that both patients are recently returned nationals, who entered the country on the back of negative PCR tests—before testing positive while in state-supervised quarantine. Both are unvaccinated. At present, both persons …
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