OWTU s president general Ancel Roget -Marvin Hamilton
UNION leaders have declared September 1 Freedom Day,when hundreds of people are being asked to come out – the day after the extended state of emergency is expected to expire – to express their displeasure at decisions taken by the government in the last 17 months.
The call was made at a virtual press conference on Thursday hosted by Oilfield Workers Trade Union president Ancel Roget. It was attended by Idi Stuart, president of the TT Registered Nurses Association; National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) general secretary Michael Annisette; Joseph Remy, president of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions; Clyde Elder, general secretary of the Communications Workers’ Union; and representatives of the Trinidad General Workers Union and Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union, to name a few.
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Talking loud and saying nothing
RAE SAMUEL
I AM NOT in any way trying to downplay the impact of covid19, which is well-nigh impossible anyway. Just as one would not attempt to be flippant or dismissive of violence against women and abuse of minors, I want to suggest, in the wake of the pandemic, we have seen the emergence of a comorbidity among certain national leaders and professionals charged with seeing us safely through this national crisis with minimal loss. And indeed among certain talk show hosts.
I call it media conference syndrome. What are its symptoms? Like a diarrhoea they rush to the microphones and stand before cameras at the slightest opportunity. And like diarrhoea it is more time spent with less substance emerging.