PM ROWLEY— STOP ENDANGERING CITIZENS’ LIVES AND URGENTLY CANCEL CPL GAMES IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19 POSITIVE CASES AMONG PLAYERS!

Good morning, everyone.

Newspaper reports state that three CPL players and a coach have tested positive for Covid-19 mere days before they are due to come to T&T. I am therefore once again calling on Prime Minister Rowley to immediately CANCEL the CPL tournament due to be held here later this month.

PM Rowley’s decision to host these games amid a deadly pandemic was highly reckless, baseless and callous in the first place. He clearly didn’t care that citizens could contract the deadly Coronavirus from these foreign visitors.

Now, we simply cannot risk this serious health threat, especially amid the current rapid rise in Covid-19 community spread. In the past few days, five police stations, schools, children’s homes, court houses and private sector businesses across the country have been forced to close, due to many emerging positive Covid-19 cases.

Incredulously, the clueless, incompetent Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh cannot say where these cases have come from! The failed, incompetent, LYING, destructive Rowley regime has also STILL NOT announced any urgent, effective measures to halt this frightening community spread.

This proves that PM Rowley and Minister Deyalsingh were blatantly LYING all along about the true incidence of Covid-19. They KNEW citizens’ lives were at serious risk, yet they deliberately under-tested the population in their sham Covid-19 testing policy to score political points.

T&T now has one of the lowest testing per capita in the world—162. This is on par with Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries! They also shut the country down for three long months, causing an instant, widespread, national hunger crisis.

They then rushed to access $22 billion from the Treasury, which never went to the people. The CORRUPT Rowley regime instead used this money to illegally fund their election campaign.

THEY NEVER had a PANDEMIC PLAN pre-Covid, during Covid and post-Covid, except to use it as an excuse to continue PLUNDERING the Treasury, citizens’ lives be damned! People will die if they ever get back into office!

A new UNC Government will urgently implement a proper Covid-19 testing policy. It will target core, exposed essential workers such as police and prison officers. We will also engage in widespread, random testing and protect our schoolchildren at all costs.

We will adhere to, and be guided by, ALL recommended medical protocols at all times. We will also implement a six month wage subsidy to prevent small businesses from closing, and preserve thousands of jobs.

Let us all rescue our country from this lying, corrupt, plundering, destructive Rowley regime once and for all. On August 10, 2020, VOTE UNC! God bless!

I am therefore calling on PM Rowley to immediately cancel the planned CPL games scheduled for mid-August in T&T.

PM ROWLEY MUST CANCEL T&T’S HOSTING OF 2020 CPL GAMES NOW IN THE WAKE OF NEW COVID-19 COMMUNITY SPREAD!

Good morning, everyone.

The daily rise in the number of positive Covid-19 cases throughout T&T is cause for very serious concern. It confirms that the failed, LYING, destructive Rowley Government engaged in a deliberate sham Covid-19 testing policy to hide the true incidence of local spread of the deadly disease.

In the past five months, only 5000 unique tests have been done by the Health Ministry—a mere 0.04 per cent of the population! This is among the lowest per capita in the world! It shamelessly puts T&T on par with Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries!

This blatant under-testing was a plot by dangerous, cruel, corrupt Rowley regime to access over $20 billion taxpayers’ funds from the Treasury to illegally fund their election campaign. Now, citizens’ lives are at serious risk because of their sinister actions!

In the last 24 hours, T&T recorded six new COVID-19 cases (15 in the past week). Businesses, schools and public offices throughout Trinidad have been forced to close due to Covid-19 exposure. People are panicking, especially since under the disastrous tenure of Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, our health sector has collapsed in every possible way!

Yet, Prime Minister Rowley and Minister Deyalsingh continue to engage in shameless, dangerous politicizing of the deadly Covid-19 health crisis. They are still incredulously trying to BLAME, BLUFF, BULLY, ATTACK, LIE and DEMONIZE citizens, the UNC and our stranded foreign nationals.

They have still not announced any contingency plan to immediately address this crucial life-and-death health matter. Never mind that, for months, PM Rowley and Minister Deyalsingh have been ranting nonstop about the much anticipated ‘second wave.’

All this proves is what I, and many others in the UNC, have been saying since January—the LYING, clueless Rowley Government NEVER had a pre or post Covid-19 plan. I am therefore calling on PM Rowley to immediately cancel the planned CPL games scheduled for mid-August in T&T.

He is on record saying that the opening of the borders has led to the increase in Covid cases. If he truly believes this, he must therefore now act responsibly and take every possible measure to protect our citizens’ lives.

Meanwhile, he must also bring back our stranded nationals and put them in quarantine. They cannot continue to live Stateless and homeless on the streets of other countries, while our Government cruelly abandons them in favour of bringing in risky foreigners to play cricket.

Indeed, this inhumane, dangerous Rowley regime will completely destroy our citizens’ lives if, God forbid, they ever get another term in office.

Now is the time to rescue and rebuild T&T! On August 10, 2020, VOTE UNC! Our very lives now depend on it.