Guardian headquarters in Trinidad In the most recently published financials, the NCB Financial Group Ltd (NCB) indicates that it has considered acquiring a controlling stake in Guardian Holdings Ltd (GHL), but has put that on hold for now. Meanwhile, the corporation indicates that control over its latest acquisition has been achieved in all but shareholding. [...]

A Caribbean climatologist has suggested that there could be a correlation between the increase in temperatures and health problems in the region although there is no empirical data. Cedric Van Meerbeeck says the Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology has started gathering data on heat sensation and can now provide a three-month forecast of the [...]

Annotto Bay Health Centre and Hospital. Acute shortages in the public health-care system are hurting the very people that Government's no-user-fee policy is meant to protect because the resources are just not enough to guarantee efficient and timely medical attention. Shortages identified in a 2015 audit of the public-health system included manpower, equipment, medications, wheelchairs, [...]