The Ma­yaro Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has re­spond­ed quick­ly to com­plaints about a jel­ly­fish threat along the Ma­yaro beach.

Com­ing to the res­cue was Haz­arie Ramdeen, chair­man of the cor­po­ra­tion, who vis­it­ed the beach­front yes­ter­day fol­low­ing re­ports in the T&T Guardian.

The beach­go­ers com­plained bit­ter­ly about the Min­istry of Tourism's fail­ure to pro­vide warn­ing signs and in­struc­tions as to how to get treat­ment if one comes in­to con­tact with the crea­tures.

They fur­ther sug­gest­ed to the T&T Guardian that the min­istry should put some ef­fort in­to main­tain­ing the beach­es at Ma­yaro and Man­zanil­la, rather than fo­cus­ing on Mara­cas on­ly.

Ramdeen said yes­ter­day that he has put sys­tems in place so that cor­po­ra­tion work­ers would move ex­pe­di­tious­ly to re­move dead jel­ly­fish from the beach.

He said the cor­po­ra­tion would be putting up warn­ing signs and ad­vised that peo­ple who were stung could re­ceive treat­ment at the Ma­yaro Health Cen­tre.

Ramdeen said he spoke with med­ical staff who had al­ready start­ed prepar­ing to at­tend to those af­fect­ed. The jel­ly­fish sea­son usu­al­ly runs from Jan­u­ary to March and the sting can be quite painful and must be treat­ed by med­ical staff.