Photos of the day: May 10, 2021
2 Days Ago
President of the La Romaine-Gulf City Taxi Driver s Association Reynold Dass, centre, along with other drivers, await passengers on Mucurapo Road, San Fernado on Monday. The association has implemented a temporary fare increase. - Angelo Marcelle
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Police close crowded supermarket, block off promenade
54 Minutes Ago
Employees from the Port of Spain Corporation employess place barriers around the Brian Lara Promenade in Port of Spain on Saturday, to prevent citizens from gathering. - Angelo Marcelle
POLICE on Saturday were forced to use their heavy hand and temporarily closed a supermarket after customers failed to comply with covid19 protocols issued for supermarkets.
Wes Bees Supermarket in Diego Martin was temporarily shut down after a video circulated on Facebook with complaints of overcrowding outside the grocery.
Supermarkets operators have urged for only one shopper per family to reduce crowds and can only allow half of the number of people it can accommodate at any one time in keeping with new health protocols which came into effect on Saturday.
Ministry condemns vandalism of C19 facility
Following the closure of the temporary shelter for street dwellers, located immediately beneath the Riverside Carpark, South Quay, Port-of-Spain in February 2021, the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services recently received reports of alleged acts of vandalism at the facility. The Ministry wishes to condemn such actions and calls on perpetrators to desist from such behaviour.
The facility had been viewed as a proactive approach by the Ministry to provide short-term care and shelter for the most vulnerable under highly unusual and unpredictable circumstances given COVID-19 restrictions, and the fact that street dwellers were among the most high-risk populations for contracting the virus. However, as restrictions were lifted the facility was closed.
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Not learning from errors
Thursday 11 March 2021
THE EDITOR: It is such a shame that TT will be known to the outside world as a country that cannot pay its bills on time.
The horribly overstaffed Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA), due to bad management, is owing billions of dollars.
Petrotrin drained government resources and it too was overstaffed, having replaced Texaco many years previously.
No prize money has been paid by the Port of Spain Corporation to the winners of its Downtown Carnival 2020 competitions.
When I lived in Barbados, I asked my neighbour why were so many workers on a particular job when only two were working? He said the government was keeping them “off the roads.”