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OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the Prime Minister's raft of tighter restrictions to combat the spread of covid19 had failed to include measures to protect the economically vulnerable.
She was commenting in a statement on Thursday evening.
"In the same manner as last year’s lockdown measures, Keith Rowley’s new measures are being done without a proper plan."
She said the PM has again said the country has no money to support businesses and individuals who would suffer in the coming weeks owing to the economic impact of these measures.
"There is a pertinent need to do all it takes to protect the lives and well-being of our citizens, but this must be done while also protecting their ability to put food on their tables," Persad-Bissessar said.
She alleged that the Government’s mantra, “We are all in this together," rang hollow, as Rowley had spent much of his presentation blaming citizens for the surge in cases.
"One would have thought that the Prime Minister, after having just recovered from covid19, would have had a different approach to the rise in cases today.
"Instead," she charged, "in his usual style, he came to blame citizens for the recent spike, conveniently forgetting that he recently had a rampage in Tobago where he eventually contracted the virus."
Persad-Bissessar said the restrictions would not affect the Government because they and their friends were clearly above the law.
"To deflect from his Government’s absolute failure, Prime Minister Rowley came to blame the citizens, the vaccines, and older people who may have been visiting a loved one."
She also chided the Government over the arrival in Trinidad and Tobago of the Brazilian strain of covid19.
"Furthermore, Rowley and his Government refuse to acknowledge their failure to secure our maritime borders as it is quite possible the Brazilian variant came via an illegal migrant crossing the porous border from South America."
She concluded,"Rowley’s Government, without any plan, continues to punish and blame hard-working citizens for their own failures. Citizens will undoubtedly end up paying the price for this Government’s continued failure."
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