MANY restaurateurs are implementing a hardnosed policy to not allow unvaccinated employees to return to work, until they are vaccinated. Or that they can return to work, but will have to produce PCR tests every two weeks etc., paid out of their own pockets. In Trinidad and Tobago, PCR tests (the test used to detect […]Read More
FIRSTLY, let me say no one is forcing anyone to take the Covid-19 vaccine. No business owner is holding their employees down and jabbing them. Secondly, business owners have the right to put measures in place they believe are best for their business. As it stands they believe having a vaccinated work force is […]Read More
PRESIDENT Paula-Mae Weekes should reconsider her decision that unvaccinated members of her security detail are not permitted in close proximity to her or her 92-year-old mother. Last week we learned that all unvaccinated workers working for her were being transferred from the President’s House to other departments so as not to be in contact with […]Read More
WAHT do you call a pig that wears a witch’s hat and lives in the desert? A ham sand-witch! Bahaha! This is a joke. Not a particularly good one, but a joke. It is simple, lighthearted, with no chance of negative repercussions…unless told to a vegan. Do you know what a joke isn’t? A flippant […]Read More
AFTER the Minister of Finance Colm Imbert and the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young are finish with NP, the entity as we know it will be decimated. Employees, dependent companies and thousands of people that depend on National Petroleum Marketing Company (NP) operations are at risk of being on the breadline. With the […]Read More
I’VE been a civil litigation lawyer for a little under two decades. And like clockwork, every year around this time my colleagues and I start to feel an all too familiar sensation of “running on fumes.” We’re exhausted from a full year of work and eagerly anticipate a timeout. Prior to Covid-19, we’d have about […]Read More
THERE will be backlash for this, but… to all the parents who loudly disagreed with the reopening of schools on a recent social media poll; I need to ask what is it that you are smoking? What magical powder are you sprinkling in your morning mug of tequila? I am not asking the parents who […]Read More
THE Dr Keith Rowley-led Government initiated an island-wide shutdown of the country and has asked people to stay at home to curb the spread of Covid-19 for 16 months now like the rest of the world had done. However, as most of the world is now reopening after securing sufficient vaccines to inoculate their […]Read More
SCHOOL is out! It’s vacation time for children… only it’s a pandemic vacation like no other. Because of the Covid-19 public health restrictions, parents can’t take the kids to the beach, their favourite food restaurants or even the cinema to relax and enjoy themselves. Despite what looks to be a challenging long vacation, the […]Read More
By Gerald Lutchman FINALLY, finally Lionel Messi has led his team to an international trophy. The wait is over; the king has taken his crown. The prince jewel of Argentine football has become the crown jewel. After five failed attempts in major finals including the 2014 World Cup, he has finally put his demos […]Read More