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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
All citizens to get essential health services, says Narace-Kimberly CastilloTuesday, October 7th 2008HEALTH ON THEIR MINDS: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Mariano Browne, rights, speaks to Health Minister Jerry Narace during yesterday's opening of the 3rd Caribbean Conference on National Health Financing Initiatives at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Wrightson Road, Port...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The Prime Minister's residence and Diplomatic Centre is not insured with Trinre. In fact, it is Central Government's policy not to insure any of its buildings, Health Minister Jerry Narace stated yesterday. Speaking in the House of Representatives during the Budget debate, Narace responded to allegations from Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh that his family firm, Trinre, was being...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
"I HAVE no involvement in, nor have I attempted to influence the award of contracts in any State organisation," Health Minister Jerry Narace said yesterday. Narace made the statement in a press release yesterday, in response to allegations made by Opposition Member of Parliament Dr Tim Gopeesingh, during his reply to the Budget debate on Monday night. During his presentation in...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Health Minister Jerry Narace says approximately $30 billion will be spent over the next 15 to 20 years to transform the health sector. Narace made the comment during Thursday's post-Cabinet press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's. Cabinet, during its sitting, Narace said, had agreed to the plan in principle and the first phase will commence from 2009 to 2013....
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
As Government goes to Parliament to request another $20-$25 billion in additional financing, I ask that Health Minister Jerry Narace add a request for $100 million to replenish the health sector's depleted stocks of medications. I (and many other citizens) depend on the health sector for drugs. The one I take is Effexor. The public health centres have not had this (and many other essential...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Health Minister Jerry Narace says some 330 schools have been sprayed to keep out the aedes aegypti mosquito, as 200 additional workers have been assigned to carry out the spraying exercises as part of the Government's efforts to deal with what he said was a "very serious matter" but not an outbreak. Narace also revealed that the Health Ministry is also exploring a potential partnership...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Narace: Not enough to call it dengue outbreakDarryl Heeralal dheeralal@trinidadexpress.com INCREASED dengue activity but no outbreak, Health Minister Jerry Narace admitted in Parliament yesterday. Responding to calls from Opposition MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh for Government to declare a dengue epidemic, Narace gave figures provided by the Insect Vector Control Unit and slammed statistics used in a media...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
check this: Health Minister Jerry Narace, right, views the contents of a Vaccine Carrier (Cold Box) with Gwendolyn Loobie-Snaggs, Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) co-ordinator after yesterday's seminar at Cascadia Hotel, St Ann's. Looking on is Dr Kumar Sundaraneedi. -Photo: JERMAINE CRUICKSHANKPublic buildings which were hard-hit by floods earlier this week will be sprayed and...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Health Minister Jerry Narace has called on healthcare officials to demonstrate genuine care when interacting with patients. Speaking yesterday at a Ministry of Health seminar on immunisation at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre, St Ann's, Narace said: "I want to ask doctors, nurses, patient care attendants...even the security officers, to really demonstrate that caring and...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
MENTAL health issues are occurring at an early age in the lives of citizens in Trinidad and Tobago, Health Minister Jerry Narace says. Narace cited the findings of a local study on mental health conducted at the Child Guidance Clinic at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope, during the launch of the National Health Promotion and Mental Disease Prevention Workshop...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
The only noteworthy events arising out of the Budget debates in both the House and the Senate were the plethora of accusations and allegations and abuse hurled across the floor by representatives of both Government and Opposition. First there was Colm Imbert's rabidly vicious attack on Kamla Bissessar's lead response for the Opposition. Then Tim Gopeesingh accused Jerry Narace of using...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... has also tested positive for dengue. At a post-Cabinet media briefing last month, Health Minister Jerry Narace said some 330 schools had been sprayed to keep out the aedes aegypti mosquito. However, the Express understands that the Insect Vector Control Department has not been called in to spray the Newtown Girls RC which has a mosquito problem. A team from the Pan American Health...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... in the way he did in order to cast aspersions on Dr Rowley. It was also odd for Health Minister Jerry Narace to put in an appearance on Thursday solely to reply to Dr Gopeesingh's allegations of nepotism involving government-owned buildings and the Narace family's insurance business. Senator Narace didn't even pretend he was there to discuss the health ministry. He waxed...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
A team from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) will be arriving in Trinidad and Tobago next week to assess the ongoing dengue situation in this country, Health Minister Jerry Narace said in Parliament yesterday. Narace said he had approached the director of PAHO on the upsurge in the cases of dengue that he has maintained is not an outbreak. "The reason I did this is everybody...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
'false': Rani Lakhan-Narace, ATTIC president, at yesterday's "Focus on Insurance" presentation at Central Bank, Port of Spain. -Photo: ANISTO ALVESRani Lakhan-Narace, executive chairman of the Reinsurance Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Trinre), yesterday vehemently denied claims that the company was receiving million of dollars worth of State contracts. Lakhan-Narace,...
