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World Family Doctor Day 2025. - Dr. C.V.Alert MB BS, DM., Family Physician. “We are all just prisoners here, or our own device”. - The Eagl...
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CCFP Trinidad & Tobago was chartered in March 1989-the 2nd Chapter to be formed.. It gave the College its first website and was very successful initially with almost 100 members and monthly CMEs, supported by a strong GP arm GPATT-the General Practitioners Association of Trinidad & Tobago. Family Physician emeritus Chapman Boyd FCCFP was the first Chair. But something strange happened, meetings died and the Chapter floundered- with increasing GP apathy and lack of leadership after 2001 . In 2000, CCFP T&T had hosted our Inaugural Triennial Conference and presented the findings of our signal pilot project -the PBSSS-Physician based Sentinel Security Service in conjunction with CAREC at the Hilton Hotel & Conference Centre under the auspices of President Kamala Dickson. We also launched our first website and commissioned a Manager with the help of CIDA. Still the Chapter died. However in 2015, motivated by what had happened in Tobago and spearheaded by a new group of young doctors who had graduated from the fledgling Family Medicine programme offered by The UWI ( and CCFP tutors and mentors), the CCFP Trinidad Chapter was born and chartered on WWFDDay 2015 at the Hyatt Regional Hotel and Convention Centre in Port of Spain.Dr Maria Clapperton was the first Chair-her team included Drs. Ria Bala, Shalini Bhola, Anushka Ragoonath, Alicia Gooding, Sandi Arthur, Michele Coldero, Sinead Perkins and she was succeeded by Dr Marie-Jo Francis-Ali and her team. The new Chair is Dr Zahra Mendoza (2025). They hold regular meetings and monthly CMEs and many of their members hold postgraduate FamMed degrees and are making their marks in public and private practice. Go to their FB page for more information. CCFP is proud of them.
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A 'windfall'
After years of obscurity, Anguilla's domain exploded in popularity. The "continuing boom" in artificial intelligence (AI) following the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, led to increasing numbers of companies and entrepreneurs paying the island nation to "register new websites with .ai tag", said the BBC.
With demand high, the financial windfall has been staggering for the Eastern Caribbean nation. In 2023 alone, a "surge" in .ai registrations created EC$87 million (£24 million) in income, said the International Monetary Fund, "just over 20% of the government's total revenue for the year". For a nation that has been "heavily dependent on tourism", the .ai boom is "diversifying the economy" and making it "more resilient".
For Anguillians, this twist of fate feels "lucky", said The New York Times last year. The nation didn't invent artificial intelligence, but its country-code internet suffix is now powering it – to the benefit of its people. The unexpected revenue has been routed towards offering "free healthcare for citizens 70 and older", said last year, with a budget "doubled" for sports activities and events, and funds also going towards improving the island's airport.
"Some people call it a windfall", Anguilla's former premier Ellis Webster, told the newspaper. "We just call it God smiling down on us."