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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Assistance Services (CAS) announced that it has begun to offer MedStar Health Information services through its call center in Trinidad. In partnership with FONEMED North America, Registered Nurses will offer round-the-clock medical advice and assistance to subscribers in the Caribbean Region by telephone and Internet. Proven medical protocols by world famous Pediatrician, Dr. Barton Schmitt, and Dr. David Thompson combine with the latest computer/telephone technology so that the nurse guides callers to the right care at the right time and place. The result is better patient access to quality medical advice, improved employee morale and wellness, and reduced costs for insurers and others who now pay unnecessarily when there is inappropriate care.
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Trinidad's native son V. S. Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature for unflinching and somewhat harsh portrayals of the Third World. The first sentence of his book A Bend in the River is illustrative of his unique viewpoint: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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Trinidad is ... blessed with magnificent Caribbean beaches and the Escambray, a rugged mountain range. The colonial town and adjacent Valle de los Ingenios, (Valley of the Sugar Mills) were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
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On May 18, 1996, Trinidad faced former world champion Freddie Pendleton. Pendleton was determined and had the experience, but became victim No. 29 when Trinidad used a left hook to the body to stop the challenger in his tracks. The fight ended in the fifth, when Pendleton failed to rise before the count of 10.
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Hasely Crawford won the first and only Olympic gold medal for Trinidad and Tobago in the men's 100 m dash in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Nine different athletes from Trinidad and Tobago have won twelve medals at the Olympics, beginning with a silver medal in weightlifting, won by Rodney Wilkes in 1948 [4], and most recently, a bronze medal by George Bovell III [5] in 2004. Ato Boldon has won the most Olympic and World Championship medals for Trinidad and Tobago in athletics with eight in total - four from the Olympics and four from the World Championships. Boldon is ... the only world champion Trinidad and Tobago has ever had in athletics competition. He won the 1997 200 m World Championship in Athens, Greece.
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On January 29, 1994, Trinidad scored a unanimous decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho. Trinidad dominated the fight against the flamboyant "Macho Man." It was fight that vaulted Trinidad to the elite of the boxing world.
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