Health Minister Jerry Narace yesterday said the US Embassy contacted the Health Ministry to indicate it had “full confidence” in the local health care system and its capacity to take care of US President Barack Obama who will be in Port-of-Spain next month for the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
“They have gone as far as saying that if something happened to President Obama they would expect he would be treated in Trinidad and Tobago by our health care system, and they are going to put out a statement,” Narace said while talking to reporters at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope. Narace gave this response when asked about the information contained at the US Department of State website which advised persons visiting this country to ensure they had “comprehensive travel and medical insurance” since “medical care is limited compared to that in the United States.” Continue Reading
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SEVERAL roads from Piarco Airport to Port-of-Spain that will conduct guests to next month’s Summit of the Americas are due to be shut tomorrow in a dry-run for April, revealed Acting Commissioner of Police James Philbert.
Rumours that children had been found in a shipping container and that one of them was missing eight-year-old Leah Lammy spread like wildfire on radio and television reports yesterday, prompting the police to search the ports at Port-of-Spain, Chaguaramas and Pt Lisas. 