The Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) has re­leased a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry list­ing ar­eas across Trinidad and To­ba­go where flood­ing has been re­port­ed, as the na­tion re­mains un­der a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert.

Ac­cord­ing to the ODPM’s sum­ma­ry is­sued at 1:00 PM, sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties with­in six re­gion­al and city cor­po­ra­tions have ex­pe­ri­enced flood con­di­tions due to on­go­ing in­clement weath­er.

The af­fect­ed ar­eas are as fol­lows:

San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion

El So­cor­ro Ex­ten­sion 2

Pa­traj Trace

Sad­dle Road, Low­er San­ta Cruz

Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion

Crown Trace, En­ter­prise

Egypt Trace

En­deav­our Road

Ak­bar Street, Char­lieville

Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion

Macaulay Junc­tion (un­der the over­pass)

Ed­in­burgh Phase 3

Ra­goo­nanan Road

West Road

Per­se­ver­ance Road

Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion

Rich­mond Street

In­de­pen­dence Square

St. Ann’s

Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion

Scott Road

Pe­nal Rock Road

Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion

West­ern Main Road, Co­corite

Eligon Av­enue

The ODPM ad­vis­es res­i­dents, par­tic­u­lar­ly those liv­ing in or com­mut­ing through these ar­eas, to re­main cau­tious and close­ly fol­low of­fi­cial up­dates. 

Cit­i­zens are urged to safe­guard house­hold items, move ve­hi­cles to high­er ground, and avoid ven­tur­ing in­to flood­wa­ters.

The ODPM con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion and will pro­vide fur­ther up­dates as nec­es­sary.