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Cab­i­net has es­tab­lished an in­ves­tiga­tive team to ex­am­ine the al­leged dis­ap­pear­ance of over 25,000 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment’s (TTR) Cu­mu­to Bar­racks ac­cord­ing to a state­ment by the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

The min­istry said yes­ter­day, the team will con­duct a full au­dit of records, the ar­moury, and stor­age fa­cil­i­ties at the bar­racks. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, two mil­i­tary of­fi­cers from Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) coun­tries will join the team, one serv­ing as co-chair. These of­fi­cers will come from the Guyana De­fence Force and the Ja­maica De­fence Force. The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty will pro­vide a Sec­re­tari­at, which in­cludes one se­nior coun­sel and one ju­nior coun­sel.

The re­gion­al ad­di­tions come as Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is in Bar­ba­dos meet­ing with re­gion­al lead­ers at the 48th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment.