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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

New $3m headquarters for alcoholism council

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20140325

The Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help has giv­en $350,000 do­na­tion to­wards the con­struc­tion of the $3 mil­lion new head­quar­ters of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Coun­cil on Al­co­holism and oth­er Ad­dic­tions at O'Con­nor Street, Wood­brook.At the sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny last Wednes­day, Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo, chair­man, said the sum was "a small do­na­tion but it came from an en­ti­ty with an over­flow­ing heart. Any project or pro­gramme or any op­por­tu­ni­ty comes our way to help the down­trod­den, the help­less, the needy and any per­son or per­sons and group or groups which need as­sis­tance, please be as­sured that we are here to make a pos­i­tive con­tri­bu­tion."

Man­ga­roo said that the prob­lem of al­co­holism and oth­er forms of ad­dic­tion con­tin­ue to haunt so­ci­ety."Par­ents, teach­ers, civic lead­ers, re­li­gious lead­ers, ser­vice al­liances must in­ter­vene to stop the morass which al­co­hol con­sump­tion con­tin­ues to cause hav­oc to all sec­tions of the na­tion­al cit­i­zen­ry. I want to make a na­tion­al ap­peal to cor­po­rate Trinidad and To­ba­go to as­sist in the com­ple­tion of the build­ing. The prob­lem of al­co­holism is not a bed­room is­sue. It has grad­u­at­ed to be­com­ing a na­tion­al is­sue with the view of sort­ing it out to the ben­e­fit of all. Time is not on our side," Man­ga­roo not­ed.Man­ga­roo said that al­co­holism and sub­stance abuse have now oc­cu­pied the dis­cus­sion ta­bles in in­ter­na­tion­al fo­rums. Al­co­holism like ter­ror­ism, the en­vi­ron­ment and well­ness are now se­ri­ous in­ter­na­tion­al is­sues which world lead­ers are giv­ing fo­cus and at­ten­tion.

"Your Coun­cil stands out as an in­dis­pens­able or­gan­i­sa­tion aimed to im­prove the qual­i­ty of life and to im­prove the hu­man con­di­tion. It is, there­fore, a na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tion and its mis­sion state­ment could be script­ed as a na­tion­al mantra."Ram­narice Dwari­ka, vice-pres­i­dent of the Coun­cil, said that the Coun­cil was forg­ing ahead with its well-knit­ted in­for­ma­tion pro­gramme aimed at mak­ing a dent on the is­sue. Dwari­ka said that the prob­lem of al­co­holism is both a fam­i­ly is­sue and so­ci­ety one as well, and warned the pop­u­lace of de­nial as an al­co­holic.Hamid O'Brien, rep­re­sent­ed the Min­is­ter of Health Dr Fuad Khan at the cer­e­mo­ny.


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