“[…] The Legal Notice stipulated that the PSC had to submit to the president a list of persons who could act… Was such a list sent to the president? “To date, the Parliament has not given its approval to an acting CoP. Questions may therefore arise if Mr Griffith is …
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 »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 »Daly Bread: SOE regs set good precedent, but why didn’t gov’t address private property?
The principal features of the Emergency Regulations, published on Sunday in an additional effort to combat the overwhelming spread of Covid-19 infections, are daytime restrictions on the movement of persons and the imposition of a 9pm to 5am curfew. I took comfort from the fact that the regulations did …
Read More »MSJ: AG gave too much power to police commissioner; amend SoE regulations!
“[…] The police are to ensure that laws are adhered to. The police cannot make laws. If we go in that direction we are creating a police state. “This SoE was explicitly proclaimed by the president to deal with a health crisis… The restrictions—including the hours of curfew—should therefore be …
Read More »Jackassery aside; is T&T being served during the pandemic? Do we deserve to be?
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley called a state of emergency yesterday afternoon based on the health catastrophe that is the Covid-19 pandemic. The people who were not at his side to explain how we arrived at that momentous decision and what comes next were: the chief medical officer, the attorney …
Read More »Daly Bread: The March warning—Dr Parasram let slip the govt’s responsibility in current spike
The working week began with a shock as a result of which we must ask the minister of health for truthful answers. The prime minister hosted a media conference on Monday last, in which he announced increased lockdowns. At that event, our trusted chief medical officer, Dr Roshan Parasram, disclosed …
Read More »Daly Bread: Topic, topic, topic—THA ‘fix’, police killings and Covid-19 vaccines
When Trinidad and Tobago is boiling over with trouble and nonsense, as it is currently, my Freeport compere says to me ‘topic, topic, topic’. So where to focus this week’s column? Should I comment further on the Tobago House of Assembly (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to break the six-six electoral …
Read More »Daly Bread: Putting certain mouths into quarantine; and holding PSC accountable
Just before his very welcome elevation to the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Boodoosingh gave a decision on the Public Health Ordinance and the Coronavirus Regulations made under it. The importance of the decision was blurred by claims of who won or lost the case made by politicians interested in …
Read More »Noble: The sound of a dying democracy; the problem with Bayside party exchange
One can be forgiven for mistaking last week’s public quarrel as the harmless flaring of tempers. It is not. The sound we heard is the whimpering sound of our dying democracy. Like 1990’s guns and fiery fury, this unseemly quarrel is one more corrosive chipping away of our long-standing political …
Read More »‘A chance to show our discipline’, AG defends masks in private vehicles and children fines
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has defended amendments to the public health ordinance, which put children over eight years old and families in their private vehicles at risk of hefty fines for not wearing masks. The measures, which became legally enforceable on Monday, received some public pushback. However, at this morning’s …
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