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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Fixing city flooding a priority

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Fi­nance Min­is­ter Lar­ry Howai says flood­ing in Port-of-Spain has been iden­ti­fied as a "mat­ter of pri­or­i­ty" and is be­ing giv­en "very ur­gent at­ten­tion" by gov­ern­ment.This, as his min­istry eval­u­ates a fi­nanc­ing pack­age to deal with the prob­lem.Howai, ad­dress­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at the San Fer­nan­do Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal, Chancery Lane last evening, said a fi­nanc­ing pack­age that has been worked out with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) to ad­dress flood­ing in the cap­i­tal city.

Yes­ter­day heavy rains once again wreaked hav­oc in Port-of-Spain leav­ing hun­dreds of com­muters strand­ed as flood wa­ters cov­ered the cap­i­tal city's streets.He stressed that flood­ing in the cap­i­tal city had to be ad­dressed giv­en the im­pact of it "will have on over­all lev­els of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty."


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