The Cab­i­net has es­tab­lished a team to con­duct a thor­ough au­dit of the records, ar­moury and stor­age fa­cil­i­ties at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment’s Cu­mu­to Bar­racks.

This fol­lows Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds rais­ing the mat­ter of an al­le­ga­tion that 25,573 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion had “dis­ap­peared” from the Cu­mu­to Bar­racks of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Fol­low­ing this rev­e­la­tion, the Cab­i­net put to­geth­er a five-mem­ber team to con­duct the in­ves­ti­ga­tion: