Seepersad warns of medical emergency gap in Special Operations Act

Akash Sama­roo

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad is warn­ing of a po­ten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous omis­sion in the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act, say­ing the leg­is­la­tion does not ex­press­ly ex­empt am­bu­lances and emer­gency med­ical per­son­nel from re­stric­tions im­posed on com­mu­ni­ties de­clared closed ar­eas.

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His con­cern comes as the Mal­oney Build­ings Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment be­comes the first com­mu­ni­ty sub­ject­ed to the leg­is­la­tion, with res­i­dents placed un­der a night­ly cur­few from 9 pm to 5 am.