Two top Defence Force officers promoted
Sunday 14 February 2021
From left, Vice Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier General Dexter Francis; Minister of National Security Stuart Young, Chief of Defence Staff Air Vice Marshall Darryl Daniel and acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of National Security Gary Joseph. - Photo courtesy Ministry of National Security
The two most senior officers of the Defence Force have been promoted by President Paula-Mae Weekes.
A statement from the Ministry of National Security said Chief of Defence Staff Darryl Daniel has been promoted to Air Vice Marshall and the commanding officer of the regiment Dexter Francis was promoted to Brigadier General and appointed as the Vice Chief of Defence Staff.
Supermarkets wait and see over migrant re-registration
President of the Supermarket Association of TT Raviv Diptee. - ROGER JACOB
SUPERMARKETS are quietly adopting a wait-and-see attitude towards news that their Venezuelan employees will have to re-register their updated personal details under the Venezuelan Migrant Registration scheme, Supermarket Association of TT (SATT) president Rajiv Diptee told Newsday on Monday.
Minister of National Security Stuart Young on Wednesday last week told the Prime Minister s media briefing at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, that Venezuelans will be given new migrant registration cards, and the previous cards will be invalid.
Since then, Newsday has reported that Venezuelans were now in fear of losing their jobs and/or accommodation, due to uncertainties around the process. Newsday asked the association if its member supermarkets were indeed having jitters over their staff, and if so, why.
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Deyalsingh: Teachers to get covid19 vaccine as essential workers
Health Minister Terrence
Deyalsingh. -
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said on Wednesday that teachers will be deemed essential workers and be among the first to get the covid19 vaccine in late February/early March.
He was addressing a briefing at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s.
Also present were the Prime Minister, Minister of National Security Stuart Young, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram and other health officials.
Deyalsingh said inoculating teachers was important because secondary schools will be partially reopening next Monday, to facilitate practical work like science labs among forms four to six.
Kamla tells government: Stop talk on failed bail bill, legalise pepper spray
Thursday 4 February 2021
A soldier waits to join the police search for kidnap victim Andrea Bharatt in Sangre Grande on Monday. Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday called on government to pass laws to make pepper spray and other non-legal weapons legal. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB -
OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on Government to stop politicising crime-fighting.
In a press release on Thursday, she said the people of Trinidad and Tobago are in danger owing to the government’s failures in national security and the criminal justice system.