Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of ig­nor­ing a deep­en­ing health­care cri­sis, call­ing on her to im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dress the na­tion and out­line a plan to fix the sys­tem.

Dis­grun­tled nurs­es are call­ing for the Min­is­ter of Health and the chair­man of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) to in­ter­vene to ad­dress their con­cerns about over­time pay­ment, staffing and gen­er­al work­ing con­di­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says sev­er­al busi­ness op­er­a­tions as­sis­tants (BOAs), some with up to 20 years of ser­vice, have been sent home from schools with­out re­ceiv­ing their re­mu­ner­a­tion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has bro­ken weeks of si­lence over the con­tro­ver­sial Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) ex­ec­u­tive re­treat, dis­put­ing claims that it cost the State more than $400,000.