UNC leader demands strict action on Deyalsingh for making ‘false statements’

Trinidad and Tobago: UNC leader Kamla Persad demanded immediate action and elimination of Terrence Deyalsingh’s post from Prime Minister Keith Rowley.

UNC leader wrote, “Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley must take immediate action and fire Terrence Deyalsingh.”

Furthermore, she added, this is necessary given the inexcusable and false statements Minister Deyalsingh made concerning the recent donation of Covid 19 vaccines by the Government of Barbados.

She confirmed that, at a press conference on the roll-out of the vaccines, Deyalsingh claimed that they were a gift from the Government of India, which used Barbados as a conduit for vaccine donations across the Caribbean.

Additionally, she stated, this has proven to be a flat-out lie. The truth is Barbados generously gifted Trinidad and Tobago a portion of vaccines from their own stock. That Trinidad and Tobago have had to rely on vaccine donations from Barbados is a damning indictment on the Government.

“If we are to believe the Minister of Health that he did not know the source of the vaccines his own Ministry administered to front-line workers, he is clearly incompetent and unfit for his job. It perhaps also explains the shambolic manner in which the Keith Rowley regime has bungled the response to the Covid -19 pandemic,” she added.

While the rest of the world is moving ahead with speedy vaccine programs, T&T has yet to fully test the majority of our population for Covid 19. It is also unclear just how and when T&T can expect to be fully vaccinated. At the current rate, T&T will be the last country in the world to be fully vaccinated.

It is also beyond puzzling why the Rowley regime has not approached the Government of India for a supply of vaccines, as did the Government of Barbados.

In the end, she noted, “Given that the Covid -19 pandemic is the most serious health crisis we are facing, the public can have no trust in the Government’s response as long as Terrence Deyalsingh remains in his post. He must go now.”

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