David E Bratt MD

Every morning, like most sensible Trinidadians—a minority—I mentally put on shining, black armour, strap myself into the car, take a deep breath and drive off to work, hopeful that I will arrive alive

The birds have been loud this past week, singing their hearts out in my garden and this morning before dawn, around the Savannah

Our ability to fool ourselves is startling and often amusing. For decades parents have encouraged their children to eat spinach in the belief that spinach was loaded with iron.

Simple intuition as well as personal experience inform us that good parenting is key for the development of mature, reasonable, adaptive human beings.

Since everybody is into international statistics nowadays, we are the third fattest nation in the world, the fifth happiest people (!), have the sexiest accent, (Trini or Tobagonian, Diego Martin or B

Naipaul is correct. Nothing is real in T&T until London says so. Minshall only became Minshallian after Barcelona.

“What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating.

I do not know how many times in the last 30 years I have been asked by people, “Doc, I think there is a child being abused in my neighbourhood. What can I do?”