T&T private sector pressing gov’t on COVID-19 concessions

Keith Rowley

Socio-economic consequences arising out of official strictures associated with efforts to push back the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic threaten to spill over into the political arena in Trinidad and Tobago.

Reports out of Port of Spain days ago disclosed that the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) is beginning to turn the screws on government as businesses in the twin-island republic cast around for solutions to continuing job losses and business closures, outcomes of the Keith Rowley administration’s seemingly increasingly uncompromising pushback against the pandemic that are impacting on critical business operations.