Demming: Language and respect are connected; don’t popularise profanity
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Demming: Language and respect are connected; don’t popularise profanity
This statement was subsequently modified by a friend who reminded me that: ‘it begins with raindrops’. That’s what crossed my mind when I heard our prime minister in a press conference quote from a calypso,
Don’t Jackass De Thing.
Image: A screenshot of Remy Rembunction’s version of Doh Jackass De Thing.
I grew up at a time when the word ‘profanity’ was used to describe certain words which you were not expected to use publicly. Madam Webster describes profanity as: ‘a socially offensive use of language, which may also be called cursing, cussing or swearing, cuss words, curse words, swear words, bad words, dirty words, or expletives’.
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Noble: Who owns Trinidad and Tobago? Is fighting the virus only the govt’s job?
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Noble: Who owns Trinidad and Tobago? Is fighting the virus only the govt’s job?
In considering the present local situation, Aristotle was right when he said: ‘
What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common or at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is concerned.’
Dr Richards: Death is ‘in your neighbourhood’; PM declares SOE as hospitals ‘basically out of beds’
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Dr Richards: Death is ‘in your neighbourhood’; PM declares SOE as hospitals ‘basically out of beds’
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has declared a state of emergency, starting from midnight, with citizens expected to stay indoors between 9pm and 5am unless they are specially exempted essential service providers.
There was no immediate timeframe offered for the duration of the measure, which the prime minister described as an ‘additional attempt to reduce the opportunity of spread’ and to limit the current ‘high levels of death’ to ‘a shorter period’.
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The people who were
not at his side to explain how we arrived at that momentous decision and what comes next were: the chief medical officer, the attorney general, and the minister of national security.
Photo: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
(Copyright Office of the Parliament 2020)
CMO Dr Roshan Parasram was, arguably, adequately deputised by principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards and chief epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds. But Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi?