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Akash Sama­roo

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the Gov­ern­ment has not­ed the planned protest by nurs­ing staff over wage is­sues, but he is urg­ing them not to dis­rupt pa­tient care and es­sen­tial ser­vices.

How­ev­er, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) says it has no knowl­edge of any planned day of “rest and re­flec­tion” by nurs­ing per­son­nel and finds it “strange” that the me­dia re­lease sin­gled out nurs­es, when it is oth­er cat­e­gories of health­care work­ers who have threat­ened to “down tools.”