For fifteen months, parents and caregivers participated in the classroom,in an engagement filtered through the keyhole of remote connections, the class assembled in tiny neat rectangles.
Fear feeds heartily on confusion and misinformation, feasting on slivers of misunderstood and misdirected information.
Stanley Kubrick’s remorselessly eerie interpretation of Stephen King’s The Shining as a lockdown descent into madness wasn’t far off for some.
A mask that filters that much airflow and maintains a good seal on your face also traps some carbon dioxide from your breath. In situations which require a bit of exertion, it’s quite possible to start getting a bit loopy.
Acknowledgement of the supremacy of verifiable science and data over emotion and social alignments is not a strategy that traditionally thrives in politics.
“We are also very pleased to play our part as a socially responsible corporate citizen, delivering this project at no cost to the Government at this stage of the pandemic.”
AMPLIA’s contribution is a part of a larger commitment by its parent company, TSTT, to contribute to the national emergency and disaster response including flood and hurricane relief.
By the second week of isolation, TSTT has successfully transitioned 82 per cent of its staff to working from home. That internal transition experience may provide the company with another asset.
The response from most of the schools operating under the management of the Ministry of Education has been desultory at best. They weren’t ready. Nobody was ready.
We’ve taken swift measures to ensure that we maintain the same levels of platform accessibility and uninterrupted service to the thousands of businesses utilizing our services.
To ensure uninterrupted service, TSTT has increased reserve power in key areas such as Caura, Couva and Balandra, and has a dedicated focus on health-care services in general.
All our systems are designed to enshrine face to face meetings and service the big economy, not the far nimbler gig economy.
Masks are worn all day, in-person meetings are avoided if necessary and nobody eats in the same office.
