Declaring Crime to be a Public Health Emergency: Trinidad & Tobago Out Front
“There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the way that we are responding here in Trinidad & Tobago….We are a bit out front on it”. These were the words of Dr. Keith Rowley, the Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, at his media conference on Monday, July 18, 2022. “The way that we are responding” refers to the application of a “public health approach” to a wider range of domains of social life. This comes as “public health,” globally, has become synonymous with lockdowns, confinement, curfews, states of emergency, and regimentation—in short, a program of authoritarian rule with totalitarian ambitions. Rowley also stated that the initiative—treating crime as a public health emergency—would attract unspecified international funding. ...
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