Res­i­dents of Bras­so Seco have been promised they will be giv­en con­tin­u­ous re­lief un­til nor­mal­cy re­turns in the wake of re­cent flood­ing there.

This comes from Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan, who toured the area on Christ­mas Eve and brought some cheer to the chil­dren.

Heavy rain­fall in ear­ly De­cem­ber brought the Bras­so Seco com­mu­ni­ty vir­tu­al­ly to its knees. Sub­se­quent flood­ing left a path of de­struc­tion and for two days the com­mu­ni­ty was in­ac­ces­si­ble to the rest of the coun­try.

The dis­as­ter grabbed the at­ten­tion of MP for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la Chris­tine Newal­lo-Ho­sein, who car­ried a mo­tion to the Par­lia­ment to talk about re­lief fro the com­mu­ni­ty and en­vi­rons.

How­ev­er, on Sat­ur­day Sinanan as­sured res­i­dents that con­tin­ued re­lief will be de­liv­ered to the af­fect­ed ar­eas.

Dur­ing his vis­it, the min­is­ter as­sessed and ex­am­ined on­go­ing works be­ing car­ried out by the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port.

Sinanan al­so told res­i­dents that "the Gov­ern­ment's du­ty is to bring ser­vices and re­lief to the cit­i­zens in this area and will stop at noth­ing to make sure that every­thing is back to nor­mal."

Al­so tour­ing the area was Sinanan's wife, Pamela, who dis­trib­uted ham­pers and toys to res­i­dents and chil­dren.