The Li­cens­ing Of­fice lo­cat­ed at Wright­son Road in Port of Spain is back open to­day, af­ter be­ing closed for the last two days.

Each he­modial­y­sis treat­ment usu­al­ly lasts up to four hours and can be re­quired up to three times a week.

De­spite re­ceiv­ing no fund­ing from Gov­ern­ment, the Caribbean Box­ing Cham­pi­onship will go on as planned, Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has said.

“What I saw in 1952 and what I see to­day is day and night. Things have changed so much. When I came to the city, every­body is on wheels, they don’t have any time.”

I am a Christ­mas per­son but since 2014 I have not been cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas. In 2013, my ba­by sis­ter, Rose, was di­ag­nosed with can­cer and she died in March 2014 at the age of 43. She was bright, beau­ti­ful and loved to laugh. Then in 2015, our beloved An­ge­lo Bisses­sars­ingh was di­ag­nosed with pan­cre­at­ic can­cer. He passed away in 2017. He was the ul­ti­mate San­ta Claus, and he too loved to laugh with a twin­kle in his eyes. In 2018, the ma­tri­arch of our fam­i­ly, my moth­er, There­sa, died. No doubt any­one will un­der­stand how it felt—our hearts were bro­ken.

I would like to com­ment up­on two is­sues con­cern­ing the func­tion­ing of PANTRIN­BA­GO’s man­age­ment team both past and present.