Our Brother Leader

After months of quiet complaints about steadily deteriorating conditions in the country’s state-run hospitals, hundreds of nurses took to the streets in demonstrations that left no doubt that Trinidad and Tobago is going though tough times.

Only a decade ago, the twin-island republic of 1.3 million people was the affluent jewel of the West Indies, with a per-capita income higher than that of any other island in the Caribbean chain

Patients at another hospital, at Point Fortin, told reporters that cockroaches and ants were routinely marching across their beds.

1990 La Times Article