Harmon signals plans to aid small businesses, farmers

New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) Secretariat Joseph Harmon being briefed by Director General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Kelvin Craig during a site visit to the National Gymnasium yesterday afternoon.

New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) Secretariat. Joseph Harmon yesterday said government is moving to implement several relief measures for both traditionally vulnerable sections of society as well as others, such as small businesses and farmers.

According to a Ministry of the Presidency statement, Harmon indicated some of the short term and long-term actions that would be undertaken.

“So, the efforts in the first phase will be to deal with those immediate issues. We have worked over the last week in trying to determine that category of vulnerable persons. We have gotten to the point now where we are fairly comfortable with that and it is not the traditional areas of vulnerabilities.