Gya: A deputy's not essential

THE warning by Professor Karl Theodore in Trinidad and Tobago, that HIV/AIDS could annihilate the people of the Caribbean is frightening at best.

But it affirms our own conclusion in October of last year that try as governments and non-governmental organizations might, curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS is as much a choice of the sexually active person as it is the duty of proponents of a healthier, safer lifestyle to get the life-or-death message across.