Daly Bread: Abstinence, abstention and absconding; sold short by procurement vote
Politicians and their satellites do not always practise abstinence from corruption. If persons populating our institutions abstain, without credible cause, from the limited opportunities to act as checks and balances, we can expect no change in the rate at which the corrupt will abscond unjustly enriched.
Last week, amidst public concern about the effect of abstentions and in the interest of fairness, I expressed my opinion that Independent Senator Dr Maria Dillon-Remy should not be targeted as the sole ‘cause’ of the government successfully diluting the procurement legislation, by being able to pass an amending bill through what is known as a simple majority.
QPCC trained during height of Covid restrictions; Lamb: why national team and not clubs?
On 2 October 2020, the QPCC Football Academy despatched emails to parents from their under-10 age group and older, which invited them to send their children to training from Monday 12 October at the St Joseph’s Convent grounds in St Clair.
At the time, Trinidad and Tobago was on a high Covid-19 alert and restrictions to thwart the spread of the novel coronavirus included: a limit on public gatherings to five persons, no in-house dining, no contact sport, no services inside churches or all places of worship, no gyms, no water parks, no casinos and members clubs, no cinemas, and no access to beaches and rivers.