The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce T&T will be op­er­at­ing a vac­ci­na­tion site for the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty start­ing on Mon­day.

The site will be lo­cat­ed the the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts in Port-of-Spain.

The T&T Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries will be col­lab­o­rat­ing to ex­e­cute the ini­tia­tive.

“We have adopt­ed this vac­ci­na­tion site to en­sure that mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty can get ac­cess to vac­cines.

“This is es­sen­tial to restart­ing the econ­o­my safe­ly as soon as pos­si­ble,” a joint let­ter to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty stat­ed.

In­ter­est­ed par­ties will be able to book their ap­point­ments from Sun­day.

“As you can imag­ine this is no small op­er­a­tion. We are un­der­tak­ing the ini­tia­tive as we be­lieve that we have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to do our part in the ef­fort to vac­ci­nate the coun­try and to en­sure that busi­ness­es and their em­ploy­ees have ac­cess to vac­cines,” it stat­ed.

The Gov­ern­ment is pro­vid­ing the vac­cines and the vac­ci­na­tors at no cost, it stat­ed.

“How­ev­er the pri­vate sec­tor will be cov­er­ing all costs re­lat­ed to op­er­a­tional­i­sa­tion, site man­age­ment, ad­min­is­tra­tion of 200 staff/vol­un­teers, meals or re­fresh­ments, req­ui­site equip­ment which in­cludes re­frig­er­a­tors, tents, gen­er­a­tors, san­i­ta­tion sta­tions, garbage dis­pos­als etc,” it stat­ed.

The site is ex­pect­ed to func­tion­al for 60 days.