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“[…] This hospitality continues even as our economy faces significant challenges that have affected all our people… “[…] Even developed nations with far greater resources face major challenges dealing with crossings of their borders, and no nation accepts non-nationals without due process…” The following statement on the government response to …

Speaking at the Ministry of Health’s media conference today, epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds said the country was still experiencing community spread, and managing our respiratory health and hygiene should be the focus of concern. Responding to a question about whether he was concerned that the virus could not be eradicated …

The decision to send an ill child to SEA classes at Maraval RC Primary School has forced the Ministry of Health to conduct contact tracing for 19 primary contacts and ‘upwards of 200 second contacts’, as Trinidad and Tobago reels from a sudden ‘upsurge’ in Covid-19 cases. Over the past …

It is readily apparent that, as predicted, the registration process for migrant Venezuelans is taking the Government and people of Trinidad and Tobago into much deeper commitments than those anticipated. Credible estimates put the number of Venezuelan migrants here at 40,000. A 14-day registration process—if well patronised by half that …

I am making an urgent humanitarian plea to the Ministry of National Security, to extend the registration time for children, pregnant women and parents of the Venezuelan migrant community. It is traumatic to separate children from their parents when they are detained or deported. Children deported back to Venezuela can …

“Armchair criminologists and political pundits, who are evidently clueless as is demonstrated with crime plan after crime plan, seem hell-bent on creating panic where none is warranted over the deportation of criminals, which is another example of selling fear to the masses to benefit a few.” The following Letter to …