Kalain Ho­sein

It was an­oth­er day of flood­ing frus­tra­tion across parts of Trinidad yes­ter­day.

Slow-mov­ing show­ers and thun­der­storms dumped heavy rain­fall across parts of Gas­par­il­lo, Re­form Vil­lage, Pe­nal and Bonne Aven­ture in south Trinidad and Cashew Gar­dens in cen­tral Trinidad

Coun­cilor for Re­form/Man­a­ham­bre Chris Ho­sein said he was com­plete­ly frus­trat­ed with the in­com­pe­tence of the Min­istry of Works as their dis­re­gard for his dis­trict has re­sult­ed in ex­ten­sive dam­age and loss­es faced by the peo­ple.

Af­ter ven­tur­ing to Re­form Vil­lage, he vis­it­ed sev­er­al homes in Tem­ple Street, Rail­way Road, Cot­tage Road, and Black Street which suf­fered dam­age and loss­es as a re­sult of the flood­ing.

Fur­ther north, the HDC de­vel­op­ment of Cashew Gar­dens ex­pe­ri­enced flood­ing for the first time for some res­i­dents. Though they have been call­ing for near­by wa­ter­cours­es to be cleared, res­i­dents claim their calls have fall­en on deaf ears.

Up to late yes­ter­day, se­vere street and flash flood­ing re­mained on­go­ing across parts of Pe­nal, with Wil­son Road Junc­tion at Clarke Road, Pe­nal im­pass­able to small­er ve­hi­cles. Sim­i­lar state­ments were echoed by res­i­dents of Clarke Road, Pe­nal, who claim that their calls for prop­er drainage to the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion were of no use.