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Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery read more…

Drug racket
May 11th 2012 8:57 PMAudit finds expensive hospital medication being sold to pharmacies A SHAKE-UP is coming in the staff at the C-40 facility at Chaguaramas, which imports and distributes the Chronic Disease Assistance Programme (CDAP) drugs to hospitals and health centres across the country. This follows a forensic audit, which has unearthed a read more…

Narace: PP delayed Scarborough Hospital by 18 months
April 20th 2012 11:59 AMFormer Minister of Health Jerry Narace claims that the true cost of the Scarborough General Hospital in Signal Hill, Tobago is $557 million, and not $735 million, as is being claimed by the People’s Partnership Government. In fact, when Mirror contacted Narace for the facts on the much-maligned hospital, which read more…

Gays push for more rights in T&T
April 15th 2012 12:02 PMAn amendment to the ever-controversial Equal Opportunity Act is making its way through Parliament, as legislators seek to prohibit discrimination on two additional grounds: age and infection with HIV or AIDS. But one of the main sources of contention with the Act – the exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and read more…

Jones made the call
April 15th 2012 11:56 AMVerna’s PS summoned St. Ann’s for Miller St Ann’s Hospital officials want to clear the air on how Cheryl Miller ended up at the institution where she spent two weeks undergoing treatment after being diagnosed as suffering with paranoid schizophrenia. A source close to the developments explained that on March read more…

Madness all around
April 13th 2012 5:26 PMIt’s either the PP and its ministers gone mad or they want to take us back into a past we repudiated a long time ago. It was not such a long time ago that Verna St. Rose Greaves was seen ringing a bell, walking barefooted in front of Salvatori’s building read more…

Fuad must be schizophrenic
April 13th 2012 5:18 PMIT was only two weeks ago that Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan, following a tour of the St Ann’s hospital, was telling the media and the public that the St Ann’s Mental Hospital should be closed and that many of the patients kept there would be better off at home read more…



