Sacha Wil­son

With much fan­fare, pomp and cer­e­mo­ny, daugh­ter of the soil Dr Gem Lin­da Lall-Dunn, wife of Dal­las mul­ti-mil­lion­aire Robert Dunn, of­fi­cial­ly launched her nat­ur­al med­i­cine and well­ness tele­vi­sion talk show at Paria Suites Ho­tel & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, La Ro­maine, last Mon­day night.

Lall-Dunn, who re­sides with her hus­band and her son, Der­rick Emery Jr, in Texas, re­turned to T&T af­ter 40 years abroad, with her Dal­las crew, to launch the tele­vi­sion se­ries–Gem of the Caribbean (GOTC).

The four-part se­ries is ex­pect­ed to be aired on lo­cal tele­vi­sion in three weeks.

Decked off in a red flow­ing strap­less gown, Lall-Dunn and her crew ar­rived in styl­ish an­tique cars and were greet­ed with fly­ing con­fet­ti. Flower girls lined her path­way with petals as she made her way in­to the ho­tel. Guests were wel­comed by Guin­ness Book of Records world record-hold­er pi­anist Charles Brun­ner.

Speak­ing at the black tie event, Lall-Dunn, a gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er who holds doc­tor­ates in nu­tri­tion, natur­opa­thy and in drug/al­co­hol abuse, said the pro­gramme was a gift to the peo­ple of T&T, and by ex­ten­sion the Caribbean. She said it would en­light­en cit­i­zens about their nat­ur­al ther­a­pies, health, di­et, dis­ease pre­ven­tion and longevi­ty.

As the host of the TV se­ries she promised a short and sweet pro­gramme with a va­ri­ety of rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion. Prais­ing her hus­band, GOTC's chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, for his mon­e­tary sup­port, she said the pro­gramme will first be broad­cast­ed on CN­MG, with re-runs on CNC3-TV.

Dunn-Lall boast­ed that her team has the an­swer to many ail­ments, in­clud­ing dengue fever, di­a­betes and heart com­pli­ca­tions. She said they were work­ing on set­ting up a Web site so peo­ple could or­der med­i­cines and get in­for­ma­tion on line. Her lo­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tive is fash­ion de­sign­er Pat Garia. GOTC's co-host Dr Ed­ward Group III, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Glob­al Heal­ing Cen­tre, said the pro­gramme will teach peo­ple how to treat with any health con­di­tion.

Group, who has stud­ied nat­ur­al heal­ing meth­ods and al­ter­na­tive med­i­cine for 20 years, said: "We all have the abil­i­ty to heal our­selves. What is keep­ing us sup­pressed is the amount of tox­ins ac­cu­mu­lat­ing in the body. The bod­ies every­where around the world are so full of tox­ic build-up it is sup­press­ing self heal­ing." Hence the rea­son why the GOTC is ea­ger to teach peo­ple how to cleanse their bod­ies.

En­dors­ing the pro­gramme, Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day, who at­tend­ed the event with his wife Oma, said it was ex­treme­ly grat­i­fy­ing when cit­i­zens who leave the coun­try con­sid­er it their du­ty to re­turn and be­stow up­on the less for­tu­nate some of which they had gained.

Hav­ing re­gard to the state of the lo­cal health ser­vices, Pan­day said the TV se­ries will be an enor­mous ben­e­fit to the peo­ple of T&T. Dunn-Lall dined and wined her guests, in­clud­ing Dr Roy Teeluck­d­har­ry, Dr Car­ol Edg­ing­ton and Dr Ed­mund Michael, as well as rel­a­tives and friends, to Texas songs and a de­li­cious meal.