THE government has made better provision for both the children and adults of TT than its PNM predecessor, argued Dr Natalie Chaitan-Maharaj, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the People, Social Development and Family Services. She made her contribution to the budget debate in the Senate on October 27.

Referring to the previous speaker, she urged opposition senator Janelle John-Bates to ask her colleagues why the former government had not opened the Couva Children's Hospital for ten years and why they had voted against the Children's Life Fund.

"Their solution was to give them weed," she hit, apparently citing the decriminalisation of cannabis for personal, recreational use.