Pepper spray debate heads to Senate next week
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OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT
Long-awaited legislation for pepper spray use will be debated in the Senate next Tuesday and apart from applicants over 18, certain categories of law enforcement will also be allowed to use it in their duties.
Plus there will be huge fines, along with jail terms, for misuse of the non-lethal weapon.
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi confirmed developments Wednesday.
Proposals for pepper spray use are an amendment to the Firearms Act. It requires only a simple majority of votes largely Government’s for passage
Reimposed restrictions forces cancellation of soca
telethon
bobie-lee.dixon@guardian.co.tt
The Government’s reimposed restrictions have forced the cancellation of the soca fraternity’s telethon which was scheduled for Saturday at the Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s.
The initiative, headed by soca’s power couple Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) and his wife Fay-Ann Lyons, was supposed to be hosted to assist in relief efforts for St Vincent and the Grenadines, (SVG), but with one of the reimplemented restrictions being a ban on public gatherings numbering beyond five half of the previous number, Lyons-Alvarez told Guardian Media there will be no telethon.
Relatives claim man paralysed after taking COVID-19 vaccine
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Kevon Felmine
The family of a retired health inspector now on the verge of death claims he developed several blood clots after receiving the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine last week.
The man’s nephew told Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne that his 60-year-old uncle went to the Princes Town District Health Facility last Wednesday and received the shot.
On Friday morning, the man complained of belly pains and went to lie down.
SWRHA completes preliminary investigation
A vial of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) says a preliminary clinical investigation into allegations made by relatives of a patient about a correlation between the administration of the COVID-19 Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine shot and a blood clot experienced by the patient, has so far indicated there is no evidence linking the patient s condition with the vaccine.
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