Veg­etable prices just may in­crease should a trop­i­cal storm hit Trinidad and To­ba­go, is one ma­jor con­cern raised by ven­dors at the Cou­va Mar­ket.

The Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PDRC) is typ­i­cal­ly one of the most af­fect­ed re­gions dur­ing ad­verse weath­er events. Now, with a pos­si­ble Trop­i­cal Storm bar­relling to­ward the coun­try, the cor­po­ra­tion has dis­trib­uted over 1,000 sand­bags to res­i­dents.

The Cen­tral Com­mand Cen­tre for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) was ac­ti­vat­ed at 6:00 pm on Mon­day 27 June 2022, in an­tic­i­pa­tion of ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions aris­ing from the im­pend­ing pas­sage of Trop­i­cal Storm Bon­nie and has been op­er­a­tional since.

Gov­ern­ment of­fices will be closed from noon to­day ex­cept for es­sen­tial ser­vices. A press re­lease is­sued to­day by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said the de­ci­sion was tak­en by the Prime Min­is­ter out of an abun­dance of cau­tion. It is to help min­imise the num­ber of per­sons on the na­tion’s roads and to al­low first re­spon­ders, if nec­es­sary, to eas­i­er ac­cess and mo­bil­i­ty. 

Ex­pect trop­i­cal storm con­di­tions from 6 pm, as Po­ten­tial Trop­i­cal Cy­clone Two (PTC2) pass­es near or over por­tions of the south­ern Wind­ward Is­lands this evening.

Ahead of the in­clement weath­er, the ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, Ken­neth Sur­ratt is call­ing on every­one in the blind friend com­mu­ni­ty to get reg­is­tered with their near­est Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion so if they run in­to trou­ble, they could get im­me­di­ate help. 

The Min­istry of Health says ef­fec­tive from noon to­day, all its Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency lo­ca­tions will re­main open, as well as its in­pa­tient hos­pi­tal ser­vices, as part of its mea­sures in re­sponse to the cur­rent Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing over Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS) says its Her­itage Li­brary, Pub­lic Li­braries and ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fices will be closed at 10:00 am to­day. 

Of­fi­cials at The Tu­na­puna Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) have sent for more sand as stock there has run out.

The Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) has ac­ti­vat­ed its re­sponse pro­to­cols and pro­ce­dures in light of the Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing in ef­fect, along with an OR­ANGE Lev­el Alert.

As the coun­try braces for in­clement weath­er to­day fol­low­ing a trop­i­cal storm warn­ing the As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go In­sur­ance Com­pa­nies (AT­TIC) has giv­en this ad­vice to cit­i­zens: 

If you are im­pact­ed by the ad­verse weath­er, the var­i­ous Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units can be con­tact­ed us­ing these num­bers: