{"id":54862,"date":"2021-11-15T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54862"},"modified":"2021-11-15T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:31:41","slug":"odd-soe-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54862","title":{"rendered":"Odd SoE decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Express Editorial<br \/>\nNovember 15, 2021 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/editorials\/odd-soe-decision\/article_fab72800-45a6-11ec-af61-63ba1f20db07.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54862\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/rowley_emancipation.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PM Dr Keith Rowley' \/><\/a>Given the Prime Minister\u2019s statement that he had no intention of seeking an extension of the state of emergency when it came to a natural end at month-end, we, too, are taken aback by his decision to end the SoE on Wednesday, 12 days ahead if its scheduled end.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe find the decision surprising not only because of his prior statement just a week earlier, but because it came on the very day that the country recorded its second highest daily number of Covid-19 deaths amid a spike in new infections from 400 to 500-plus over four consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rowley\u2019s comment that the SoE had served its purpose as a \u201cholding arrangement\u201d to limit \u201cexposure and mixing\u201d until the vaccine programme had been rolled out made little sense given that roughly 50 per cent of the population is unvaccinated at a time when the dangerous Delta variant is raging. Could a more plausible explanation for Dr Rowley\u2019s decision be the ruling party\u2019s campaign for the Tobago House of Assembly election on December 6?<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/editorials\/odd-soe-decision\/article_fab72800-45a6-11ec-af61-63ba1f20db07.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express Editorial November 15, 2021 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Given the Prime Minister\u2019s statement that he had no intention of seeking an extension of the state of emergency when it came to a natural end at month-end, we, too, are taken aback by his decision to end the SoE on Wednesday, 12 days ahead if its scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Odd SoE decision<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1524,310,1,33,30,7,55],"tags":[60,1593,49],"class_list":["post-54862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-health","category-pnm","category-politics","category-tobago","tag-keith-rowley","tag-soe","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54864,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions\/54864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}