Nurses in Maloney urged to carry work documents during curfew

Nurs­es and mid­wives liv­ing in the Mal­oney De­vel­op­ment have been ad­vised to car­ry proof of em­ploy­ment, their work sched­ules and proof of ad­dress when trav­el­ling dur­ing cur­few hours, as the Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion works to se­cure arrange­ments to fa­cil­i­tate their move­ment.

In a me­dia re­lease on Wednes­day, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) said it was li­ais­ing with the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to en­sure nurs­ing and mid­wifery per­son­nel could trav­el to and from work de­spite the re­stric­tions im­posed un­der Le­gal No­tice No. 848, the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (Cur­few) Or­der, 2026.

The as­so­ci­a­tion ac­knowl­edged the in­con­ve­nience and chal­lenges the re­stric­tions had cre­at­ed for health­care work­ers liv­ing in the af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ty.

In the in­ter­im, mem­bers have been ad­vised to car­ry their na­tion­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, work iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, copies of their cur­rent work ros­ters and proof of ad­dress when trav­el­ling.

The TTNNA said it would al­so rec­om­mend con­tin­gency arrange­ments to fa­cil­i­tate the move­ment of nurs­ing and mid­wifery per­son­nel if sim­i­lar re­stric­tions were im­posed in oth­er com­mu­ni­ties.

It added that fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on the arrange­ments for is­su­ing pass­es would be com­mu­ni­cat­ed through an of­fi­cial pub­lic no­tice.

The as­so­ci­a­tion said it re­mained com­mit­ted to pro­tect­ing the wel­fare and rights of health­care work­ers while en­sur­ing es­sen­tial health­care ser­vices were not un­nec­es­sar­i­ly dis­rupt­ed.