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THERE was silence on Monday from the Opposition UNC as to whether or not party leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has received a reply to the letter which she wrote last month to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In it she asked India to send TT doses of covid19 vaccines.
Persad-Bissessar could not be reached to find out whether she had received a response.
UNC PRO Kirk Meighoo could not shed any light on the situation, saying, "I am unable to say at the moment but I will let you know as soon as I can."
When Newsday contacted the Indian High Commission to find out whether there had been any response from the Indian government, officials there were unable to say whether such a reply had been sent to Persad-Bissessar
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne chided Persad-Bissessar for writing the letter. Browne said Persad-Bissessar "has chosen to sacrifice protocol and good judgement and to tamper with the sound bilateral relations in a quest for relevance and attention.”
In February, Barbados donated 2,000 doses to TT from a shipment of 100,000 vaccines it had received from the government of India. The Prime Minister turned down an offer of one of those vaccines for TT and said he would wait to receive his vaccine next month.
Apart from seeking additional vaccines from India and the African Union, Dr Rowley said, Caricom would ask the US for help in providing the region with covid19 vaccines. Rowley, who is the current Caricom chairman, has publicly raised concern about inequity in the global distribution of the vaccines. Caricom has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a global summit on the issue.
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