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Proud Moment: Professor Selwyn Ryan greets Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar at the launch of Rhona Baptiste's book, Kamla: Ascent of a Woman, in November 2010

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…

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Health Minister Dr. Fuad Khan

Drug racket

May 11th 2012 8:57 PM

Audit 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…

Former Health Minister Jerry Narace

Narace: PP delayed Scarborough Hospital by 18 months

April 20th 2012 11:59 AM

Former 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…

Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development VERNA ST. ROSE-GREAVES makes her point to the gathering. Photo courtesy GISL

Gays push for more rights in T&T

April 15th 2012 12:02 PM

An 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…

SHOWING SUPPORT: CHERYL MILLER (centre) leaves the Hall of Justice, Port of Spain accompanied by cousin JOHN CUMMINGS (right), sister DOREEN, several relatives, friends and co-workers after the hearing on Thursday

Jones made the call

April 15th 2012 11:56 AM

Verna’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…

Media coverage alerted the country to Cheryl Miller's plight: Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development employees protest outside Parliament last Wednesday, urging the release of their co-worker Cheryl Miller, who was snatched from her workplace two weeks ago and sent to St. Ann's Psychiatric Hospital. A High Court judge has since ordered her release

Madness all around

April 13th 2012 5:26 PM

It’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…

Dr. Fuad Khan

Fuad must be schizophrenic

April 13th 2012 5:18 PM

IT 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…

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