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The Opposition United National Congress has resumed its pavement report, the first was held in Felicity on Thursday night with crime and healthcare taking centre stage.
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00:00Crime is a nightmare.
00:02Recently we were having a crime meeting in Pier Road.
00:07While that meeting was going on,
00:10bandits were robbing the house right across the road.
00:14That is how serious this crime situation is.
00:17There's another instance.
00:19So if you think that story is bad, there's another instance.
00:23Right, a stone's throw away from here in Philly City.
00:27Bandits broke into our house.
00:29Not one night, not two nights, but three consecutive nights.
00:35Three consecutive nights.
00:38That is the madness, the craziness that citizens are facing.
00:43But that's not all.
00:45At the UNC's pavement report held in Philly City,
00:48the plight of cancer patients was brought to the fore
00:51with Dr. Rishad Sitaran saying patients must pay privately or die.
00:57They are there in Parliament boasting
00:59that this country has first world country healthcare.
01:02That is a blatant lie.
01:04We are worse off than Haiti.
01:07There is no relief for cancer patients at the St. James Medical Complex.
01:12And the Northwest Regional Health Authority wants to blame it on a filter farm machine.
01:17That is negligence at its best.
01:19Could we not have bought a spear filter before that filter went down?
01:23Six-month cancer patients must wait to have chemotherapy
01:27while the cancer is growing in their body.
01:29He says it is akin to medical torture.
01:32And the same, he says, goes for kidney patients.
01:36Dr. Sitaran says the public-private partnership to provide renal care
01:41was started by the People's Partnership in 2014 for renal dialysis patients.
01:47In 2024, they paid 150 million for 1,200 patients
01:53at 12 private clinics in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:56And when I asked the minister during the budget to give us the names of these private clinics
02:01and how much each clinic was paid, he never responded.
02:04So despite millions being paid for dialysis equipment
02:08at Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex,
02:11at the Point Fortin Hospital,
02:13at the Cuva Hospital,
02:15at the Port of Spain General Hospital,
02:17almost every single kidney patient must go privately to get dialysis.
02:21Does that make sense?
02:23And as it relates to the Labour Front,
02:26one trade unionist-turned-politician is sounding this warning to workers at two state companies.
02:32They want to create this narrative that the workers of TNT
02:38and at the ports are not productive
02:42and they are not working in the interest of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:46They are setting up the workers to privatize the ports of Port of Spain,
02:53the port authority of Trinidad and Tobago,
02:56and to privatize the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission.
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