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Your government is working for you, it's the theme of the Youth Minister's presentation in the lower house on Wednesday as the debate on the budget continued. Meanwhile the health Minister says his health serves as s testament to the drugs on the CDAP listing.

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00:00Your government is working for you unlike any other. It's the tagline
00:05proffered by Youth Development Minister Foster Cummings during his contribution
00:10to the budget debate today. UNC government continues to speak about a
00:14hundred schools that they built sometime during their tenure in office. I know the
00:19Minister of Education will speak about it but we have looked high and low
00:23throughout Trinidad and Tobago and we cannot locate those hundred schools
00:27Madam Speaker and notwithstanding our pleadings to them where do these
00:35schools exist, these hundred completed schools. It is only a figment of the
00:40imagination Madam Speaker. He took time to respond to assertions made by his
00:45political opponents. They have said before that the PNM government
00:50introduced strangers to agriculture in this country. They never gave us what
00:54they meant by that. I have strong suspicions of what they were trying to
00:59say but what we have been doing is opening up the agricultural sector to
01:04involvement by young people no matter what creed or race in this country and
01:10some people on the other side seem to be a little uncomfortable about that but
01:15all we are concerned about as a government is making sure that we can
01:19feed ourselves. Meanwhile his cabinet colleague Health Minister Terence
01:23de Alsing chided political opponent Devendra Nath Tanku for utterances made
01:27the day prior. It was disgraceful to hear Arupuj West introducing to the
01:35Parliament a slang, an obscene slang used in social media WTF and he used the
01:45analogy we know what it means in social media but he used it here to say where
01:50the funds that is your Minister of Finance in waiting Trinidad and Tobago.
01:56He says funds are being used by his ministry to among other things invest in
02:03e-prescriptions and network laboratories. You do blood work it goes into your
02:09laboratory information system but what happens in Trinidad and Tobago if you
02:15are from Diego Martin and your blood work and your x-rays are in Port of
02:23Spain and you go San Fernando and you fall ill there they have to redo
02:28everything because they don't have access to your files. We are now linking
02:36all of these things it has already begun. De Alsing addressed allegations of his
02:43interference in the running of the chemistry food and drug division for
02:47clamping down on the sale of unregistered drugs by targeting small
02:51pharmacies. Cough syrups tainted with something called diethylene glycol for
02:59the layman what is diethylene glycol you see that green thick syrupy liquid you
03:07point a car arm radiator as a coolant that madam speaker is diethylene glycol
03:16diethylene glycol has found its way into the pharmaceutical supply chain and in
03:26Africa and Indonesia over 400 children have died because of kidney failure.
03:35The minister dismissed claims he said were made by the opposition regarding
03:40the quality and effectiveness of CDAP drugs. Every time somebody from the UNC
03:45talks on CDAP the drugs ain't good. My own HbA1c how I manage my diabetes on
03:57taking metformin from India varies between 4.5 to 6 over the past 10 years
04:06that is excellent. My cholesterol I got the reports this morning my total
04:14cholesterol varies between 172 and 200 by taking simple starting from where
04:20India via CDAP. Arvishi Tiwari, Rupnur Ain TV 6 News
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