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Four days after he renewed calls for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help ensure equity of access to COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley revealed yesterday that “charlatans” are attempting to peddle vaccines to the government at inflated prices as high as US$25 per dose. What’s worse, he said, is that the culprits include members of the medical fraternity.Dr Rowley made the revelation when he joined a Ministry of Health virtual press conference and responded to claims about the government’s perceived failure to acquire substantial doses of COVID-19 vaccines. “There are people hanging around us here in Trinidad and Tobago, some nationals of Trinidad and Tobago and some of them in the medical fraternity, seeking to assist us with vaccine and they’re quoting prices to us, thinking that we’re in desperation, prices in the order $19 and $25 (US) a dose,” he said. It’s difficult to say exactly how much a dose costs, but in India where the Oxford-Astra
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Media Monitor: A bevy of Guardian gags and CNC3 gaffes but who gets the last laugh?
You laugh. In spite of yourself.
Photo: CNC3 trio (from left) Bavita Gopaulchan, Jesse Ramdeo and Kalain Hosein.
Raucous mid-morning laughter had also filled the Guardian newsroom way back in the 1990s as the word got around. Crime ace Francis Joseph had reported that a man who had been shot dead was buried alive the next morning.
And it had somehow managed to get into the day’s paper.
But if it’s any consolation, it’s not just here in T&T that stuff of that sort occurs. From a media source in the US of A came a similar report about the sister of CNN’s Don Lemon. It seems that, three years ago, she ‘unexpectedly died after drowning’.