The Impact of Covid-19 on the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force

A Command Perspective

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ID11305359
AuthorsMichelle S A Nicholson (Association of Caribbean Criminal Justice Practitioners, corresponding author), Michelle V Eastman-Jarrott (Association of Caribbean Criminal Justice Practitioners)
Year2023
Volume39
Issue4
Pages490-508
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Developing Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0169-796X • E-ISSN: 1568-5225
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0169796x231209085
OpenAlexW4389391659
LanguageEN
References cited6

In Trinidad and Tobago, military commanders were forced to deploy personnel on the frontlines alongside police officers during the COVID-19 pandemic in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. The armed forces were used to provide drivers to transport returning residents to quarantine facilities and nurses and paramedics to assist with the critically ill at the field hospitals. The military was also utilized to enforce lockdown regulations. The use of the military in these ways exposed personnel to the added risk of contracting the virus, all the while increasing the burdens of their service demands. While there is available scholarship on this phenomenon in Western countries, there is a dearth of similar research in the Caribbean. In light of this gap, a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with key military personnel of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the operations of the organization. This essay provides first-hand accounts of the military of Trinidad and Tobago during the pandemic

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Military personnel · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Quarantine · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine

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