Have a disciplined Christmas! Gov’t offers vaccine update, schools target, and measure for UK travellers
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley pleaded with businesses and vacationers in Tobago to remain vigilant at today’s press conference, which is expected to be the last Covid-19 briefing before Christmas Day.
The government will retain current novel coronavirus protocols until 10 January at the earliest. And Rowley warned the public not to let their discipline drop in the season of merriment.
Photo: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
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“We are seeing and hearing that some people are dropping their guard,” said Rowley. “I want to appeal to the business community this might be your best week, I know that [but] don’t let it be the week that we have lost the gains we have made. Continue to emphasise sanitation, distancing and the lack of congregation.
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PM slams criticism of meeting with Venezuelan envoy
Dr Keith Rowley
THE Prime Minister is unfazed by the Opposition s criticism of a meeting between himself and Venezuelan Ambassador Carlos Amador Perez Silva.
He said, Their head just hard. They re not learning.
Dr Rowley met with Perez Silva on Monday at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann s.
In a release, the Office of the Prime Minister said the meeting focused on issues related to national security, immigration and covid19.
It said Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne, Minister of National Security Stuart Young and Ricardo Sánchez, chief of the consular section of the Venezuelan embassy, also attended.
Wade Mark
THE Opposition will not support any legislation brought to Parliament until Government returns the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act to its original form.
At a press conference at the office of the Leader of the Opposition, Charles Street in Port of Spain, opposition senator Wade Mark addressed the issue. Mark sat on a panel with opposition MPs, Rodney Charles and Vandana Mohit and the three discussed three current issues in TT: the procurement legislation, Venezuelan migration issue and proposed increases in pasta and macaroni. Mark called for Government to withdraw what he termed “the disturbing amendments” to the Act and return it to its original “pristine glory.”
SHARLENE RAMPERSAD
Opposition Member of Parliament Rodney Charles has called on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to stop his ‘gallerying’ and ‘bullying’ and take action on the Venezuelan migrant crisis.
Speaking at a United National Congress press conference yesterday, Charles, who is the shadow Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, called on Rowley to get his ministers of National Security (Stuart Young) and Foreign and Caricom Affairs (Dr Amery Browne) to act or fire them.
He said this country’s current handling of the Venezuelan migrant situation is failing.
“It is serving neither the interests of Venezuelans here, nor those risking their lives on the seas, nor the interests of the people of T&T whose welcoming mat may soon experience stresses, nor our international reputation, nor relations with future Venezuelan administrations, nor our economic relations with our major trading partners, nor our domestic social peace and harmony,” Charles said.