PRIME MINISTER KEITH ROWLEY'S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

This was the speech in which the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago announced that he was escalating illegal mandates to include every single employee in the public service, including teachers, police, and the military.

Rowley began the address with a recap of the history of the pandemic and TT’s response to it. He said that in recent months, several countries had implemented strict measures to fight the virus. These included France, New Zealand, Australia, the US, Canada, Barbados, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Latvia, and Singapore.

Some of the measures implemented, Rowley said, included mandatory vaccinations for federal workers and certain categories of workers such as those in healthcare and teachers; fines and no-pay suspensions for the unvaxxed; no free health care to the unvaxxed; allowing businesses to suspend/fire workers who refuse the vaccine; lockdowns for the unvaxxed; covid19 passports, badges, and certificates to travel or enter public places; and curfews and lockdowns.

He hinted that if TT does not turn back the tide in terms of rising infections and deaths, government may have to consider such "measures" being implemented in other countries.