The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says the Cyril Ross Chil­dren’s Home in Tu­na­puna was un­able to main­tain li­cens­ing re­quire­ments de­spite its at­tempts to com­ply. How­ev­er, the au­thor­i­ty has sig­nalled its will­ing­ness to work with the So­ci­ety of St Vin­cent de Paul in the fu­ture.

On De­cem­ber 31, the El Do­ra­do Road, Tu­na­puna home for dis­placed chil­dren liv­ing with HIV and AIDS, which had been in ex­is­tence since 1994, per­ma­nent­ly closed its doors.

Pres­i­dent of the so­ci­ety, Nigel Phillips, blamed li­cence de­lays for the clo­sure. He ex­plained that af­ter us­ing funds al­lo­cat­ed by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter to up­grade the fa­cil­i­ty, fur­ther re­quire­ments meant the so­ci­ety had to dip in­to its own pock­ets, which was no longer fea­si­ble.