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Indarsingh: Pupils left behind by online learning
Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh. -
COUVA South MP Rudranath Indarsingh bitterly complained that after a year of the covid19 pandemic some pupils have been left behind by their inability to access online learning due to a lack of electronic devices and/or internet connectivity. He was part of Parliament s Joint Select Committee (JSC) on Social Services and Public Administration chaired by Paul Richards which on Wednesday held a virtual sitting to meet the Telecommunication Authority of TT (TATT), Digicel, Flow and TSTT/BMobile.
Indarsingh lamented that 35,000 pupils have no devices, while an unnamed school principal had complained that the State had not supplied internet access at her school even as she asked the MP to find a private service provider.
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Obesity in children soars 400% in 10 years
Sunday 28 February 2021
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh, from left, Minister of Youth Development and National Service Fitzgerald Hinds and MP for Port of Spain South, Keith Scotland do squats at the opening of the Healthy Youth TT gym facility at St James Youth Centre on Saturday. PHOTO BY JANELLE DE SOUZA -
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said obesity in children increased 400 per cent between 1999 and 2009.
Speaking at the opening of the Healthy Youth TT programme at the St James Youth Facility on Saturday, he said a survey of BMIs conducted by the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute for the ministry indicated that obesity in children was 2.4 per cent in 1999 and 12.5 per cent in 2009.