Guarding the borders and keeping the country safe is a full-time job and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is encouraging men and women to learn to swim in the community pool to that end.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the time at the opening of the community pool in Morvant.
“Your value to the nation is only growing and you yourself will know personally and feel that satisfaction of helping to develop the nation,” Rowley said.
Rowley said that this programme would help direct people who want to help Morvant.
Rowley said sport was important and said it could that the country was not recognised in sport is “because sport management had not kept pace with the exposure of talent.”
“The managers of the sport, the organisers of the competition and the fans, they make it happen. So you have to work with other people and if there is assistance to come..we are not without resources,” Rowley said.
“It is how we use the resources we have,” he said.
Rowley said it not how much millions is spent, it’s what is done with that money.
“Today, whatever this costs, we have done well with that allocation but it is the start of the process,” he said.
He said that there was always hope to be better and to be best.
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds was also at the opening and updated the media about the incoming traveller who tested positive for Omicron.
Hinds said he expected the law enforcement to act as it does on all COVID-19 violators.
Hinds said that the female passenger uploaded false documents into the TTravel Pass system and he will hold talks with Copa Airlines, the airline which allowed the woman to board with a positive PCR test.
He said he would also be writing to every airline to remind them on the country’s protocols.
“I am hoping quite frankly that the law will set a good example,” he said.
“People have to understand every country has their legal arrangements to respond to COVID and we want the world to have some respect for T&T,” he said.