Days away from the Gov­ern­ment’s vac­ci­na­tion dead­line to pub­lic ser­vants, a group of peo­ple staged a walk from Pleas­antville to San Fer­nan­do against manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tion yes­ter­day.

At present, there is no manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tion pol­i­cy in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Us­ing a long PVC-de­signed sy­ringe cre­at­ed by Ju­nior Bis­nath as their prop, the group led by en­ter­tain­er Tri­cia Hamil­ton and Bis­nath, leader of the Kaisokah Moko Jumbies, sent a clear mes­sage to the gov­ern­ment that it is op­posed to what it called forced vac­ci­na­tion.

Hamil­ton who is known as Sexy Tri­cia in the en­ter­tain­ment are­na ex­plained, “To­day’s walk is about my body, my choice. We be­lieve that peo­ple shouldn’t be los­ing their jobs. We as Trin­bag­o­ni­ans we need to be our broth­er’s keep­er. It’s about time we say enough is enough, too much is too much. We will not be forced to be vac­ci­nat­ed with some­thing no­body re­al­ly knows what ex­act­ly go­ing on.”

The gov­ern­ment has made the pub­lic sec­tor a safe zone and has asked all work­ers to be vac­ci­nat­ed by mid-Jan­u­ary.

Those who are un­vac­ci­nat­ed will be fur­loughed—sent home with­out pay.

Hamil­ton yes­ter­day, re­mind­ed church­go­ers who are sup­port­ing what she called manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tion that God gave peo­ple free will.

“So no gov­ern­ment, no hu­man be­ing should take that right from us,” she added.

Al­though the group was small in num­bers be­cause of the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions, Hamil­ton said they have been get­ting sup­port from a lot of peo­ple, in­clud­ing mo­torists and passers­by.

Say­ing the is­sue tran­scends race, re­li­gion and po­lit­i­cal pref­er­ence, she said, “As an artiste, peo­ple say this is not your war. This is my war be­cause we now would have a rip­ple ef­fect.”

Hamil­ton asked her fel­low en­ter­tain­ers to con­sid­er that peo­ple will not be able to sup­port their shows and events if they lose their jobs.

“This is not about be­ing self­ish. Don’t be self­ish. Come out and stand up for all the peo­ple that’s been there, work­ing hard in the bat­tle­field be­fore we even had a vac­ci­na­tion, be­fore we had any­thing, be­fore we know of any tablet. They’ve been work­ing, work­ing and now you’re say­ing no if you not vac­ci­nat­ed you can­not work. I say no to that, we all say no to that.”

Bis­nath lament­ed that soon the pub­lic will be told that they can­not en­ter gov­ern­ment build­ings if they are not vac­ci­nat­ed. “The whole mis­sion about them is to fright­en the peo­ple to do what they have to do. So peo­ple don’t be afraid,” he added.

The po­lice spoke to the group but did not stop the mem­bers from walk­ing.

The World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion and glob­al health ex­perts have said that COVID-19 vac­cines may not pre­vent some­one from be­com­ing in­fect­ed with the virus, but will min­imise hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tion and death.