For­mer Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jack?Warn­er says his min­istry did re­spond to Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man An­tho­ny Sam­my's calls for help in March. How­ev­er, the Na­tion­al?Se­cu­ri­ty?Min­is­ter said yes­ter­day last Sat­ur­day's dev­as­ta­tion was not on­ly caused by floods but from mounds of dirt which came crash­ing down from the moun­tain­side. Warn­er, in a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, said he re­ceived Sam­my's let­ter and the min­istry re­spond­ed by do­ing drainage works in parts of Morne Co­co Road, Diego Mar­tin and Pe­tit Val­ley. He added the Diego Mar­tin riv­er was al­so dredged.

How­ev­er, he said, no one could have an­tic­i­pat­ed what hap­pened on Sat­ur­day."Those guys who were killed when the moun­tains came down... the moun­tains came down... it was not in the flat. When you look at the moun­tains you will see raw chunks of the moun­tains," he said. Warn­er dis­missed crit­i­cism from Op­po­si­tion Leader, Diego Mar­tin West MP Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Diego Mar­tin North East MP Colm Im­bert and Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral MP Dr Amery Browne as at­tempts to "score cheap po­lit­i­cal points." Calls to Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma's cell­phone went unan­swered.