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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes 260 personas hospitalizadas.
La cantidad total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,031.
Hay 224 adultos y 36 menores hospitalizados. Este monitoreo cubre el periodo del 27 de agosto al 9 de septiembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 22.53 por ciento.
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Minister of Rural and Local Government Faris Al-Rawi. –
CHAGUANAS mayor Faaiq Mohammed is on Monday expected to meet with the union representing Chaguanas Borough Corporation (CBC) workers “to discuss the way forward” over unpaid wages.
Mohammed told Newsday the meeting is scheduled to start at 10 am. The workers are represented by National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW).
“After meeting, we will send out a release,” he said on Sunday.
Last week, Mohammed said the CDC was short on finances and unable to pay 624 workers.
Mohammed said a depletion of funds— for which he blamed the Rural Development and Local Government Minister ministry —may force the corporation to close its doors on Monday.
In response, Rural Development and Local Government Minister Faris Al-Rawi rubbished claims the CDC had no money to pay workers.
Mohammed also promised to comment on the minister’s statement.
“I would also be responding to that point by point,” Mohammed added.
On Friday, Al-Rawi said mayor’s claims were “very unfortunate and deeply troubling.”
Al-Rawi said he was “deeply alarmed” the CBC “should dishonestly allege” it had no money to pay salaries.
Al-Rawi also said he personally convened a meeting with all mayors, chairmen, chief executive and financial officers, requesting submission of all claims for a shortfall in money as well as for arrears in payments.
He said the ministry “chased the corporations” for submissions and also embarked on an aggressive exercise to ascertain the extent of unspent balances held by each regional body.
Al-Rawi added that the ministry’s team met with the CBC and the mayor on August 15 to discuss issues, including supplementary funding required for wages and Cost of Living Allowances (COLA).
“At this meeting, we discussed the fact that the CBC had approximately $1.3million audited unspent balances available for expenditure and $7.3 million in unaudited unspent balances in its corporation account.
“It was agreed that the ministry would authorise the $1.3 million in audited unspent monies to be used for wages and COLA and that it would cause the immediate audit of the unspent balances to allow the CBC to meet the approximately $1.8 million in expenditure required for the continued employment of the workers.
“It was also agreed that the CBC would use its overdraft facilities in the event of delay and that the ministry would look at alternatives as we approached the financial year end in September 2022,” Al-Rawi said in the statement.
He added the ministry ensured that the CBC’s unspent balances were audited and the exercise was completed.
“The CBC is aware of the completion of the audit of unspent balances as the matter is on the desk of the CEO of the CBC, as the mayor is well aware.
“It is now within the remit of the CEO to sign off on the audited unspent balances statement and to request the use of the audited balances to pay outstanding wages and COLA, as agreed.
The statement also said along with an unspent balance of approximately $8.6 million, the corporation was expected to receive an additional $200,000 from the ministry to facilitate payments to personnel and repairs to key vehicular assets within the CBC.
It further noted that the CBC only requested the expedition of $150,000 out of its unspent balances in a written request on September 2, which was approved by the ministry.
“In all the circumstances it is beyond unfortunate that the CBC would choose to willfully and callously impose confusion and despair among 624 workers that they have publicly threatened to affect when they are sitting on approximately $8.6 million in unspent balances, which they can and ought to use to meet obligations.”
Al-Rawi urged the corporation to “disengage from its present course of action” as it “certainly does not redound to the benefit of its burgesses and employees.”
He also said it was reprehensible to threaten workers for alleged non-receipt of approximately $3 million when the corporation was sitting on over $8.6million.
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David Lee – SUREASH CHOLAI
Opposition MP for Pointe a Pierre David Lee on Sunday questioned whether the Prime Minister’s recent trip to Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Netherlands was nothing more than a PR stunt.
Dr Rowley returned from his state business trip on Sunday.
He left for Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on September 2 for meetings with major global energy companies with investments in Trinidad and Tobago.
He held meetings with executives from Proman which is one of the largest downstream investors in the petrochemical gas industry in TT, particularly in methanol.
He also held meeting with executives from British Petroleum (BP) and Shell. He was accompanied by Energy Minister Stuart Young.
Lee said the Opposition was demanding accountability for all citizens. He said the prime minister’s trip was “a political joyride which he is calling an energy trip.”
Lee also said there were several questions he wanted to ask Rowley.
He said Rowley made two energy trips for the year which have not produced results for the country.
“Is there going to be an increase in oil and gas production for the country? Are we going to see new foreign direct investments that he is coming back home with in his briefcase and he is going to layout for us tomorrow of the millions and billions of new investment that he and Energy Minister Stuart Young have brought back for the country.”
Lee said the opposition believes it was a public relations stunt as the Budget Day was soon. The budget will be read on September 26.
He asked why did Rowley have to go to Germany to view one of Proman’s plants when there were 14 plants in TT.
A September 6 media report said Rowley met and travelled with Proman’s chief executive David Cassidy from Zurich, Switzerland to the company’s office in Dusseldorf, Germany.
It said they met to discuss exploring opportunities for development in TT.
It added that future projects including proposals related to upstream gas projects and proposals to carbon capture utilisation and storage featured in the talks.
But Lee asked whether the meeting had to do with Clico’s part-ownership in Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Ltd.
“We are asking, tell us, if there has been any undertaking by negotiations in Switzerland to sell out the asset or the shares that Clico owns in the methanol plant in Point Lisas to Proman?”
Speaking of the Paria Commission of Enquiry (CoE) not having resources to begin the enquiry, Lee said, it was disheartening to read that commission chairman Jerome Lynch KC had to go public to “beg and ask for certain basic needs to get the commission going.”
Lynch said the commission was without pens, paper, scanners, internet, desks, chairs, office furniture or staff to process over 4,000 pieces of documents. He also said while the commission as ready to begin its job, it could not do so without the basic tools.
“It is a setback for the families of the lost divers that they have to now witness this debacle that is taking place in front of them and in the media,” Lee said.
UNC called on the Government to put things in place to work with the commission so it can bring closure to the families of the four divers that died in February.
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Rodney Charles. File photo/Sureash Cholai
The Opposition is calling on the Government to make police use of body cameras mandatory.
At its media press conference on Sunday, UNC MPs, Rodney Charles and David Lee addressed issues of crime and energy-related matters respectively.
Charles called for all 10,000 police officers to be given body cams or, at least, frontline officers.
In March, it was reported that police got an additional 1,000 body cameras for use which took the then total to 1,160. In July, it was reported that officers were being trained to use the body cameras.
Charles said the Opposition wanted the immediate, mandatory use of body cameras for all 10,000 police officers and he referenced six police killings which took place over the weekend.
“At the very least, for those many thousands engaged in frontline operations with criminals, they must be equipped with body cameras,” he said.
He said use of the body cameras will provide “irrefutable, visual evidence concerning the circumstances concerning any shootings by police.
“It ensures that all interactions between citizens and the TTPS are recorded and they conform to the requisite protocols of decency and professionalism.”
Apart from adhering to protocols of decency and professionalism, Charles said this will grow trust, goodwill and cooperation between the citizens and police.
The videos could also be used to show international agencies that TT is not a country characterised by extra-judicial killings, he added.
“The families of those killed by police must not go to their graves believing that their loved ones were unjustly killed and they go to their graves hating our police because not irrefutable evidence of innocence or guilt was provided,” he said.
Charles said this was also a way to protect TT’s “hard-working, law-abiding police officers” and get rid of the “few bad apples.”
He also called on the Police Social and Welfare Association to also call for body cameras for all front-line officers.
“If they do not insist on body cameras then they are abdicating their responsibility to those officers who have nothing to fear, who operate within the law and who would wish the world to know.”
Charles also called for the body cameras to be supplemented by CCTV coverage of hotspots. This will address citizens concerns and good policing will be acknowledged, he added.
He said the Prime Minister and National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds was not supplying the police with resources including body cameras and CCTVs.
Charles said if the Opposition returns to Government it will ensure as many officers as possible are equipped with functional body cams, it will develop a regulatory framework for the use mandatory use of body cameras by police and widespread CCTV coverage with 24/7 monitoring in all hotspot areas.
He added that the party would also examine the powers of the Police Complaints Authority along the lines of Canada’s Special Investigations Unit.
He added that this body keeps its citizens informed at every stage of an investigation.
“While the SIU does not prosecute, it gets the ball rolling, instead of allowing cases to languish for years,” he said.
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La scène nationale lance sa saison cinéma. L’occasion de faire un point sur la programmation qui se divise entre l’Atrium et Madiana.
La programmation de Tropiques Atrium recommence avec une sélection riche et diversifiée. Les spectateurs pourront voir des films très récents avec notamment le retour de notre « Fenêtre sur Cannes », qui permettra de découvrir plusieurs pépites de l’édition 2022, comme Decision to Leave du Coréen Park Chan Wook ou As bestas, le thriller espagnol de Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Nous ferons aussi la part belle au cinéma…
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Serge Aribo, secrétaire général de l’UGTM Santé
Ce week-end, le collectif « Rézistans » a organisé un point d’étape sur l’obligation vaccinale. Contacté en amont de cette rencontre, le secrétaire général de l’UGTM Santé en a profité pour mettre en lumière des difficultés administratives liées au certificat de contre-indication à la vaccination.
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Le Lorrain
La question de l’approvisionnement en eau potable est toujours d’actualité au quartier Morne capot au Lorrain. Le « Kolectif Eau Morne Capot » a réuni la population samedi dernier. Il s’agissait de faire le point sur l’évolution du dossier. Manifestement, on s’oriente vers une mobilisation d’envergure : le siège de Cap Nord, l’usine d’eau potable de Vivé ou les factures d’eau sont visés.
Depuis plusieurs semaines, la distribution d’eau potable dans l’un des plus grands quartiers du Lorrain est devenue très aléatoire. La population est obligée de faire appel au « système D » et notamment de se fournir en eau à une source déclarée impropre à la consommation à cause de sa très forte pollution à la molécule de la chlordécone. Un collectif a été créé et une série d’actions ont été menées dont une mobilisation devant l’usine de production d’eau potable…
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Au départ, le pari fou de réécrire l’histoire de l’exceptionnelle saison 1998 de Simon Jean Joseph, Patrick Pivato et la Subaru Impreza Groupe A de l’équipe Prodrive-Cilti Sport. A l’arrivée, l’immense bonheur d’un week-end fabuleux, avec la fierté pour Simon d’avoir mené à bien une aventure exceptionnelle, récompensée par la ferveur renouvelée d’un public toujours aussi enthousiaste.
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Prime Minister Dr Rowley – SUREASH CHOLAI
THE Prime Minister has returned from his state business trip in Europe.
Dr Rowley is expected to host a media conference on Monday at 9.30 am.
A notice on the Office of the Prime Minister’s social media accounts said Rowley returned from his trip to Europe on Sunday.
He left for Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on September 2.
The Office of the Prime Minister said Dr Rowley’s visits involved meetings with “major global energy companies who have significant investments in Trinidad and Tobago.”
He held meetings with executives from Proman. Proman is one of the largest downstream investors in the petrochemical gas industry in TT, particularly in methanol.
He also held meeting with executives from British Petroleum (BP) and Shell.
Energy Minister Stuart Young accompanied the prime minister at the meetings.
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