Gov­ern­ment has to­day launched an on­line plat­form where a cer­tifi­cate is gen­er­at­ed that is manda­to­ry be­fore en­try in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The TTRAV­EL pass has been hailed as an ‘Ex­cel­lent IT plat­form’ that will play a piv­otal role in the re­open­ing of the bor­ders which is card­ed for Ju­ly 17th.

With­in three days of trav­el­ling or 72 hours be­fore ar­rival this form must be gen­er­at­ed. First­ly, the trav­eller would have vis­it www.TTrav­el­Pass.gov.tt where they must pro­vide their;

Pass­port In­for­ma­tion
Neg­a­tive PCR test tak­en no ear­li­er than 72 hours be­fore ar­rival.
Vac­ci­na­tion Card for ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed pas­sen­gers.
Con­fir­ma­tion of paid State su­per­vised Ac­com­mo­da­tion (For un­vac­ci­nat­ed or par­tial­ly vac­ci­nat­ed pas­sen­gers)
Itin­er­ary (e.g. Air­line or Flight num­ber)
Gen­er­al health in­for­ma­tion

A trav­el au­tho­ri­sa­tion form is then gen­er­at­ed with a scannable QR code. Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young told Guardian Me­dia that they are con­fi­dent that the plat­form can with­stand the on­line traf­fic and hot­lines will be launched to­day for trav­ellers seek­ing as­sis­tance on us­ing the on­line plat­form.

Those de­tails he said will be re­leased by the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions soon. The IT plat­form will be man­aged by the Min­istry of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion, igovTT and the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

Re­porter: Akash Sama­roo