Stadium before drugs? Madness

At present there is a chronic shortage of life-saving cancer drugs. What are available are extremely expensive and the average person simply cannot afford them, in which case the cancer will spread uncontrollably and the patient will go to his/her grave sooner rather than being cured.

Our expenditure priorities in TT seem not to be heading in the right direction for the welfare of our citizens.

After spending over $2 billion on the Toruba stadium that was started a decade ago, millions more are going to be pumped into it and citizens are possibly going to die because the funding of life-saving medicines has been neglected.

This is madness.

Also, there is talk of the Government building an expensive road through difficult terrain to get to an unbuilt dock in Toco to access Tobago. This does not make sense. It will cost taxpayers billions of dollars and will make no difference in travel time. And for someone living in San Fernando or Port-of- Spain it will be a lot more costly.

Our Treasury is extremely short of funds and what little we have left must be spent wisely. And the priority must be trying to keep our citizens alive and not spending scarce funds on projects that are not absolutely essential.

Andy Campbell via email