PNM in Gov't (2020-2025)

[Wraith King]

If Kamliar was in office this country would have been infested with COVID-19.

Sunlight will kill the COVID-19, that was her words.

Her ministers told the people of this country to stay away from the vaccine yet Moonilal took it.

I am certain the UNC is praying that our present situation gets out of hand.

Username Habit7 an error was made in naming the vaccine, there was no need to resort to ad hominem.

The country is infested with the virus presently.

If you're right about the UNC, that's horrible of them because the situation is already terrible and "out of hand".

If Roodal did that you shouldn't listen to him. Hopefully your MP has been giving you advise.

[sMASH]

https://www.facebook.com/robin.achaibar ... 2836598279

[redmanjp]

If Kamliar was in office this country would have been infested with COVID-19.

Sunlight will kill the COVID-19, that was her words.

Her ministers told the people of this country to stay away from the vaccine yet Moonilal took it.

I am certain the UNC is praying that our present situation gets out of hand.

Username Habit7 an error was made in naming the vaccine, there was no need to resort to ad hominem.

The country is infested with the virus presently.

If you're right about the UNC, that's horrible of them because the situation is already terrible and "out of hand".

If Roodal did that you shouldn't listen to him. Hopefully your MP has been giving you advise.

but it took a year for it to happen. if they (the UNC) had open back borders after a few weeks then it would have been infested for months with infected trinis coming in with 10 or more variants. the death toll would be in the thousands now.

[Habit7]

https://www.facebook.com/robin.achaibar/videos/10159402836598279

Smash ease we up with the propaganda videos nah.

“Hear what the UNC’s solution to covid is. One, state of emergency – but open bars. The Member for Oropouche East spent half of his contribution saying keep rum shops open."
https://newsday.co.tt/2020/04/28/deyals ... ure-covid/

[Gladiator]

If Kamliar was in office this country would have been infested with COVID-19.

Sunlight will kill the COVID-19, that was her words.

Her ministers told the people of this country to stay away from the vaccine yet Moonilal took it.

I am certain the UNC is praying that our present situation gets out of hand.

Username Habit7 an error was made in naming the vaccine, there was no need to resort to ad hominem.

The country is infested with the virus presently.

If you're right about the UNC, that's horrible of them because the situation is already terrible and "out of hand".

If Roodal did that you shouldn't listen to him. Hopefully your MP has been giving you advise.

but it took a year for it to happen. if they (the UNC) had open back borders after a few weeks then it would have been infested for months with infected trinis coming in with 10 or more variants. the death toll would be in the thousands now.

People keep saying this... but you may be just unaware? every single person entering Trinidad through the airport is intercepted and escorted to a quarantine facility for a stay of 14 days. Only after they are thoroughly tested then they are released. So there is almost zero chance of them spreading COVID. If the UNC were in power, I am sure they would have had the same system in place.

Ironically however the last two planeloads of travelers to come in were not returning residents but 100+ Chinese nationals.

[sMASH]

they woud have still had to pass through the quarantine with mandatory testing, but not at the snail pace that small pin was moving. set up a tent city in the air port self, have them stay their 14, once they double negative, they out.

yes,m was to bring them back faster, but not jess so jess so.

[Wraith King]

If Kamliar was in office this country would have been infested with COVID-19.

Sunlight will kill the COVID-19, that was her words.

Her ministers told the people of this country to stay away from the vaccine yet Moonilal took it.

I am certain the UNC is praying that our present situation gets out of hand.

Username Habit7 an error was made in naming the vaccine, there was no need to resort to ad hominem.

The country is infested with the virus presently.

If you're right about the UNC, that's horrible of them because the situation is already terrible and "out of hand".

If Roodal did that you shouldn't listen to him. Hopefully your MP has been giving you advise.

but it took a year for it to happen. if they (the UNC) had open back borders after a few weeks then it would have been infested for months with infected trinis coming in with 10 or more variants. the death toll would be in the thousands now.

You can't bash one party and give the other a free pass in this matter. UNC tried to raise the matter in Parliament but got turned down everytime. While UNC trying to score political points, the PNM should have been more responsible and taken the virus more seriously but instead they thought Carnival was too important.

[sMASH]

https://www.facebook.com/robin.achaibar/videos/10159402836598279

Smash ease we up with the propaganda videos nah.

“Hear what the UNC’s solution to covid is. One, state of emergency – but open bars. The Member for Oropouche East spent half of his contribution saying keep rum shops open."
https://newsday.co.tt/2020/04/28/deyals ... ure-covid/

sooo, is that going to be rowley covee plan 2022?

[Wraith King]

[vimeo][/vimeo]

https://www.facebook.com/robin.achaibar/videos/10159402836598279

Smash ease we up with the propaganda videos nah.

“Hear what the UNC’s solution to covid is. One, state of emergency – but open bars. The Member for Oropouche East spent half of his contribution saying keep rum shops open."
https://newsday.co.tt/2020/04/28/deyals ... ure-covid/

You don't be on anyone case. If the UNC made the suggestion last year and the PNM now following it this year, what does that tell you? So their suggestion was discredited because they wanted bars open but now their suggestion is somehow good because PNM did it?

[Habit7]

You don't be on anyone case. If the UNC made the suggestion last year and the PNM now following it this year, what does that tell you? So their suggestion was discredited because they wanted bars open but now their suggestion is somehow good because PNM did it?

I can be on whomever case I want. You now join tuner last week and want to dictate who I should be on? Know your place.

This has nothing to do with who suggested what but misinformation. Cherrypicking soundbites to get a reaction but not giving the context is spreading propaganda. If you don't like me saying so scroll past.

[MaxPower]

If Kamliar was in office this country would have been infested with COVID-19.

Sunlight will kill the COVID-19, that was her words.

[Wraith King]

You don't be on anyone case. If the UNC made the suggestion last year and the PNM now following it this year, what does that tell you? So their suggestion was discredited because they wanted bars open but now their suggestion is somehow good because PNM did it?

I can be on whomever case I want. You now join tuner last week and want to dictate who I should be on? Know your place.

This has nothing to do with who suggested what but misinformation. Cherrypicking soundbites to get a reaction but not giving the context is spreading propaganda. If you don't like me saying so scroll past.

You still believe being on the forum for a certain period of time entitles you to some sort of special privilege. You wrongly believe you can silence persons that don't share your view with your bullying tactics and when called out you trying to act like a victim and gather sympathy by claiming you trying to stop misinformation. Tell us what misinformation was the person spreading via the video?

Clearly you don't mind misinformation because you defended Rohan making the 50K people went to Tobago comment. Outright lies don't bother you but somehow something that shows the PNM making fun of a suggestion by the UNC only to have to follow the same suggestion that they made is termed "misinformation " and you can't stand for it.

You're the one that needs to know their place but don't worry I'm here to help.

[Habit7]

You don't be on anyone case. If the UNC made the suggestion last year and the PNM now following it this year, what does that tell you? So their suggestion was discredited because they wanted bars open but now their suggestion is somehow good because PNM did it?

I can be on whomever case I want. You now join tuner last week and want to dictate who I should be on? Know your place.

This has nothing to do with who suggested what but misinformation. Cherrypicking soundbites to get a reaction but not giving the context is spreading propaganda. If you don't like me saying so scroll past.

You still believe being on the forum for a certain period of time entitles you to some sort of special privilege. You wrongly believe you can silence persons that don't share your view with your bullying tactics and when called out you trying to act like a victim and gather sympathy by claiming you trying to stop misinformation. Tell us what misinformation was the person spreading via the video?

Clearly you don't mind misinformation because you defended Rohan making the 50K people went to Tobago comment. Outright lies don't bother you but somehow something that shows the PNM making fun of a suggestion by the UNC only to have to follow the same suggestion that they made is termed "misinformation " and you can't stand for it.

You're the one that needs to know their place but don't worry I'm here to help.

I am not playing any victim. I am offensively calling out your lie to misrepresent Sinanan when he clearly said back and forth, you lied when you said somebody was celebrating the Tobago number and you lied when you claim I said you were ZR. 3 lies you blatantly pushing but want to point fingers at others.

PNM had no problem with SoE, the minister was pointing out the hypocrisy of calling for the extreme of an SoE but compromising on the simple measure of closing bars.

You are not the first time somebody created a 2nd account to push some agenda under the false presence of neutrality. I eat you fellas for breakfast.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

So wasa looking to make allyuh make 3k for water meters...nice nice

[Wraith King]

You don't be on anyone case. If the UNC made the suggestion last year and the PNM now following it this year, what does that tell you? So their suggestion was discredited because they wanted bars open but now their suggestion is somehow good because PNM did it?

I can be on whomever case I want. You now join tuner last week and want to dictate who I should be on? Know your place.

This has nothing to do with who suggested what but misinformation. Cherrypicking soundbites to get a reaction but not giving the context is spreading propaganda. If you don't like me saying so scroll past.

You still believe being on the forum for a certain period of time entitles you to some sort of special privilege. You wrongly believe you can silence persons that don't share your view with your bullying tactics and when called out you trying to act like a victim and gather sympathy by claiming you trying to stop misinformation. Tell us what misinformation was the person spreading via the video?

Clearly you don't mind misinformation because you defended Rohan making the 50K people went to Tobago comment. Outright lies don't bother you but somehow something that shows the PNM making fun of a suggestion by the UNC only to have to follow the same suggestion that they made is termed "misinformation " and you can't stand for it.

You're the one that needs to know their place but don't worry I'm here to help.

I am not playing any victim. I am offensively calling out your lie to misrepresent Sinanan when he clearly said back and forth, you lied when you said somebody was celebrating the Tobago number and you lied when you claim I said you were ZR. 3 lies you blatantly pushing but want to point fingers at others.

PNM had no problem with SoE, the minister was pointing out the hypocrisy of calling for the extreme of an SoE but compromising on the simple measure of closing bars.

You are not the first time somebody created a 2nd account to push some agenda under the false presence of neutrality. I eat you fellas for breakfast.

The only truth you have spoken so far is that you eat fellahs for breakfast.

Again trying to discredit someone in this case me by calling me a liar and creating alternative accounts. You're a liar and no amount of trying to paint me as one is going to change that. I hope your handler is taking notes of your missteps.

It's almost midday so you probably already had a hearty breakfast of boys.

I have no reason to lie about neutrality, if I want to support a party I'm free to do so just as how you're free to support PNM however, you're not free to spread lies and propaganda while trying to silence others who dislike the agenda and policies of the PNM.

[Habit7]

Good whatever, I am not a pubescent boy to be offended by attacks on my sexuality.

Be prepared to trail me around like a bomcee fly. Because whether it is your lies or someone else's, I will call it out.

Deal with it.

[Wraith King]

Good whatever, I am not a pubescent boy to be offended by attacks on my sexuality.

Be prepared to trail me around like a bomcee fly. Because whether it is your lies or someone else's, I will call it out.

Deal with it.

Mr. Boys For Breakfast, no one asked you your sexuality but you felt the need to mention what's your first meal of the day. You're claiming to do exactly what I'm doing to you. You're delusional, maybe it has something to do with your diet.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/customers-to-pay ... sa-meters/

Let's hear the stooges

[wing]

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/customers-to-pay-3000-for-wasa-meters/

Let's hear the stooges

Just asking, what's the cost of installing a ttec meter when u applying for a supply? Cause it's something every single homeowner have done for decades.

[Ben_spanna]

The question should be who or what company was given a contract to supply al these meters? I guarantee you it s a cause for concern and discussion….
Oh how how people find clever ways to thief …..or so they think

[shake d livin wake d dead]

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/customers-to-pay-3000-for-wasa-meters/

Let's hear the stooges

Just asking, what's the cost of installing a ttec meter when u applying for a supply? Cause it's something every single homeowner have done for decades.

$95

[wing]

The question should be who or what company was given a contract to supply al these meters? I guarantee you it s a cause for concern and discussion….
Oh how how people find clever ways to thief …..or so they think

I agree it's a concern. But I ask, which company will satisfy those who already have an anti pnm bias? Reason being it's almost guaranteed whoever has been chosen will have some sort of relationship with the govt and it's that relationship many will jump on , not value for money. So expect another hundred pages of to and fro between the usual suspects.

[sam1978]

Not really , the same suppliers work the system on both sides. All the UNC contractors that were criticized before and threatened with jail are now the PNM contractors. Namalco, Kallco, Ramhit et al.

[Wraith King]

[youtube][/youtube]

The question should be who or what company was given a contract to supply al these meters? I guarantee you it s a cause for concern and discussion….
Oh how how people find clever ways to thief …..or so they think

I agree it's a concern. But I ask, which company will satisfy those who already have an anti pnm bias? Reason being it's almost guaranteed whoever has been chosen will have some sort of relationship with the govt and it's that relationship many will jump on , not value for money. So expect another hundred pages of to and fro between the usual suspects.

Red or yellow, same corruption.

[Habit7]

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/customers-to-pay-3000-for-wasa-meters/

Let's hear the stooges

This is what happens when decades of paying one of the lowest water rates in the region. Now that it is inefficient, debt burdened and overstaffed, these are the measures you must take.

Or are you going to refuse, buy a tank, buy a pump and pay for water by the truckload?

[sam1978]

Metered water rates is not a bad thing. It makes you realize how much water you usually waste. Consumers will be very circumspect in their usage when they’re paying by the cubic meter.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

I dont mind the use of meters. Two of my properties already have them. I rather pay for what I use as opposed to paying for something I hardly get.
Currently its $1.87 per cubic meter(220gals). I just want to see how much people in certain areas gonna pay

[Kickstart]

Renuka Singh

Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat yesterday gave the assurance that food hampers are being delivered to all constituencies.

Rambharat attended the post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s and took United National Congress (UNC) Member of Parliament for San Juan\Barataria Saddam Hosein to task for not providing names of those in his constituency that need the food hampers.

At a media conference on Wednesday, Hosein said that Rambharat was not providing hampers for his area.

“It surprised me that of all the MP’s he would be one out in the public talking about that because I received several messages from people in his constituency,” Rambharat said.

Rambharat read out one message from a member of Hosein’s constituency who said that when she contacted the MP’s office she was told that there were no hampers to give out.

“I know for a fact that we have sent 200 (hampers) to that constituency,” Rambharat said.

Rambharat said that the Government promised 600 food baskets and then doubled that to 1,200.

“But you will only get your hampers if you had indicated that I have 100 names, I have 100 families to give it to. So MP Saddam Hosein was really a shock to me because so far he has only given 200 names,” Rambharat said.

The Minister said that after Hosein’s media conference on Wednesday, he expected him to submit 400 names to NAMDEVCO for hampers.

“I checked and they said to me, no we’ve gotten nothing,” he said.

Rambharat said that MP for Moruga, Michelle Benjamin requested another 200 to add to the 400 she already gotten and it was being prepared for dispatch.

Rambharat said that Hosein “needed to get his head examined” after he only supplied 200 names yet went on a media conference seeking to blame the Government for not supplying what he never requested.

Two non-governmental organisations in that same area reached out to NAMDEVCO and baskets were provided to them.

“That gives me some assurance that while Saddam Hosein sits wherever and does nothing, two NGO’s got packages,” he said.

He said that while packing up the hampers if extras are available, they would be sent to the NGO’s.

Rambharat said that Oropouche MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has already surpassed the 400 and may go beyond the 600 limit.

“If he goes beyond 600 in his community and we are able to deal with it, we would,” he said.

Rambharat gave the assurance that the food hampers until the end of August and in the next financial cycle will become a permanent part of the Government’s food outreach programme.

Food Hampers but only for PNM supporters

[Redman]

Metered water rates is not a bad thing. It makes you realize how much water you usually waste. Consumers will be very circumspect in their usage when they’re paying by the cubic meter.

The subsidies have distorted consumption patterns and stifled innovation in TnT.

They were ignored by every govt.

Unwinding them is going to get messy.

[Wraith King]

The Day of Reckoning is not too far off
by

Curtis Williams


As the last two weeks have passed and the number of positive COVID-19 cases increased significantly and sadly with it the deaths of nationals, people appear to be surprised by what is happening. Often, the daily question after the numbers are released, is how did this happen? Well, this happened because this is T&T.

Of course, it is easy to blame the Prime Minister for encouraging people to go to Tobago in their thousands, but still tell them to behave themselves, as a parent would tell a child. But to blame Dr Keith Rowley is to refuse to accept that, as a people, we have not shown the character to do the hard things and the disciplined things.

We have to admit that perhaps this constant need to physically distance, avoid liming, adhere to the protocols and not encourage and facilitate the illegal entry of non-nationals were perhaps beyond us. Beyond a people who like to take it to the edge, hoping we don’t fall off the cliff.

So we thought that COVID-19 may cause some discomfort, some people who were old and had co-morbidities may not have made it. However, we apparently also weighed this with the fact that we had an entire parallel healthcare system that would provide care, including new hospitals, built by the past government for which this Prime Minister told us up to last Saturday we were lucky to have but wasn’t gracious enough to acknowledge that it was another administration’s work.

You see, it is this inability to stay the course, to do the hard work that is necessary to get to the finish line that is exactly the Trini trait and one that if we only had the never say die spirit of some of our neighbours, would have served us right today.

T&T is a country that for all of its small size and regardless of the constant narrative that all is lost, has considerable resources and but wasted a lot of it.

Per capita, this country is one of the wealthiest in the Americas. It has sold billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. Its infrastructure is easily superior to anything in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has invested heavily in healthcare, national security and education but has been reluctant to do the difficult things that will reap the kind of rewards the people of this country deserve.

Just as we trifled with COVID-19 until it has brought us face to face with a healthcare system bursting at its seams with record deaths and infections, we ignore or fail to deal with our economic malaise at our own peril.

A day of reckoning will come and I am afraid it is not too far off from now.

For the last five years, there has been the constant warning that the current exchange rate parity was not sustainable and that the Government’s notion of a soft landing would not work.

We had that conversation as a nation before in the 1980s and it did not work, as we burnt through our foreign exchange in a matter of a couple of years and found ourselves at the doorstep of the IMF. The challenge of the economy then, as is today, is that the energy sector was the engine of the economy and without it there was little that could stand on its own. Today, our economy is different, there is some diversification within the energy sector, so oil is not the only product. There is now gas, petrochemicals and some limited services. Manufacturing is stronger, but even that is not a net earner of foreign exchange and depends on the forex from the energy sector to survive.

The Government, in 2016 to 2018, did not make the move then. Had it done so there would have perhaps been benefit from it. Instead, it defended the TT dollar, using limited US dollars and overseeing the reduction in our official reserves by billions of dollars.

Doing the hard work of removing the bottlenecks in the ease of doing business, encouraging and working with companies to invest their capital here for a fair return is too much hard work, and respecting the population to bring them on board and lead them to a better place required humility, leadership and country first. It was too much for the administration and its supporters.

So we did nothing and when the unsolicited, free advice is offered by others, we have the spectre of the most junior of junior ministers seeking to besmirch the reputation and gravitas of someone like Dr Terrence Farrell. After all, it’s easy to talk.

We have for a long time known that the health system is unbecoming and unless we have radical health reform, it will fail.

Dr Karl Theodore has done extensive work on some solutions from an administrative and economic level and we know that a big part of the challenge of the healthcare system are the systems that do not put patients at the centre of healthcare.

Instead, we lived in the fool’s paradise that any government could provide the money for public healthcare unless its personal and corporation taxes are so high they discourage investment. We prefer to dread going to the public hospitals rather than do the hard things to fix it.

And now we are faced with what is going to be a game-changer. We are faced with the inevitable end to fossil fuel in a mere 29 years. Yes, there are those who would argue that oil and, in particular, natural gas will be around for a long time. They may be right. But what if they are wrong?

For three days this week, Colombia University in the United States held a global energy conference in which they had leaders discuss the issue of energy transition.

During the discussions, US President Joe Biden’s adviser on climate change Gina McCarthy argued that the country that wins the race to renewables will be the economic powerhouse.

She said, “The future is going to be who grabs clean energy and wins it. And we already know that because of disinvestments over the prior five years and the lack of even significant or sufficient investment, the US lags internationally in terms of if we are going to be the winner. The argument is the sensitivity about who wins and who loses, who’s left behind or not left behind. And how we do this, in a way that’s going to be fast enough to meet the moment that we find ourselves in. But also careful enough for us to recognise that in a transition, there will be portions of the economy that will be divested, and there will be workers facing the need for transition.”

Nigeria vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo called for a just energy transition for developing countries and energy producers like T&T. He raised the spectre of several European countries and development finance institutions banning further investments in fossil fuels.

“Globally, we are seeing wealthier nations and development finance institutions banning all public investments in fossil fuels, including natural gas. Examples include the European Union, the United Kingdom and Denmark to name a few, as well as specific institutions such as the Swede Fund from Sweden, CDC from the UK, the European Investment Bank and the Investment Fund for developing countries from Denmark,” he said.

In other words, it has started.

Increasingly, there will be pressure not to spend on fossil fuel projects and when the investments dry up, so too will the production. T&T is warned we must do the hard things to quickly transform the economy. If indeed, oil and gas continues into perpetuity then that is ok. It will be extra money that we can save and invest. But if the winds of change are so strong that they blow the sector down, we would have found new ways to not just survive but hopefully to prosper.

Do we have it in us to do the hard work and see the danger of the status quo, or do we have to touch the wound like Thomas to know it is real?

Curtis Williams is saddened for the families and friends of all those who have lost their loved ones due to this pandemic. Like most people, he too now knows victims.