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Hinds tells UNC: United front to fight covid19 exists
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Fitzgerald Hinds
NATIONAL Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has told the Opposition UNC that a united front already exists in Trinidad and Tobago to combat the covid19 pandemic.
Hinds made this comment in post on his Facebook page, responding to a call by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar at a recent UNC virtual meeting for Government to form a united front with the UNC and other stakeholders against covid19 Actually, there is already a united front!
But Hinds added that Persad-Bissessar and the UNC are on the outside of this group.
Hinds says oh geed! to Moonilal s vaccine guinea pig claims
Fitzgerald Hinds -
NATIONAL Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Sunday supported Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh s condemnation of UNC s Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal s comments about Trinidad and Tobago soon receiving 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. In a daily newspaper article on Saturday, Moonilal claimed the population could be used as guinea pigs for this vaccine and its efficacy was unknown.
In a tweet, Imbert said, Recent claims by the UNC Opposition about the safety and efficacy of the Sinopharm covid19 vaccine are asinine. The Astrazenica and Pfizer vaccines have the same exact WHO approval status as Sinopharm. All these vaccines are approved by WHO (World Health Organization) for emergency use in the pandemic.
Hinds to UNC: Government abandoned no one in pandemic
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds. Photo by Jeff K Mayers
NATIONAL Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds on Tuesday rejected Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar s claims that Government abandoned vulnerable people during the covid19 pandemic.
In a post on his Facebook page, Hinds said, Given the fact that the country’s economic circumstances are seriously challenging, the Opposition Leader bombards us with dotish talk about the Government locking down and abandoning little people.
Hinds said on Monday, during a news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann s, public health officials pointed to a serious threat (of) our health system being overwhelmed. He said this was based on the projections are that the number of covid19 infections could double in a matter of weeks in TT given our bad, reckless and sometimes downright foolish behavior.
Hinds praises Young on gas deal to restart Pt Lisas plants
Energy Minister Stuart Young
NATIONAL Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds on Wednesday praised his predecessor, now Energy Minister, Stuart Young for an interim agreement reached between the National Gas Company and the Proman Group on Tuesday,
It led to an immediate restart of Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd s (MHTL) M4 and M5000 methanol plants at Pt Lisas.
In a post on his Facebook page, Hinds referred to a statement on Tuesday from the Energy Ministry in which Young expressed pleasure at the restart of those plants. He recalled that the plants were recently closed after NGC and MTHL could not agree on a gas-supply contract to the satisfaction of both entities.