Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has giv­en as­sur­ances that all rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties have been mo­bilised and are work­ing to deal with the flood­ing and land­slides fall­out of the cur­rent cy­cle of ad­verse weath­er af­fect­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a short state­ment in his so­cial me­dia pages, the PM urges cit­i­zens to co­op­er­ate with the au­thor­i­ties, and take all nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions.

The fol­low­ing is the state­ment is­sued by the Prime Min­is­ter …

“We are cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a bad weath­er emer­gency.

Ex­ces­sive­ly heavy rains are up­on us and all our wa­ter cours­es are at or are close to ca­pac­i­ty. The in­ter­na­tion­al fore­casts are for fur­ther in­com­ing heavy rain­fall over the next two days. Al­ready there is sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to our road in­fra­struc­ture in very many parts of the coun­try.  We are an­tic­i­pat­ing in­creased flood­ing and land­slides in sus­cep­ti­ble ar­eas.

Cit­i­zens are re­quest­ed to be very alert to these dan­gers and, as far as fea­si­ble, re­strict your move­ments un­til the dan­gers have passed or are abat­ed.

All arms and agen­cies of the state have been ful­ly mo­bilised and are on alert un­der the in­struc­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter and un­der the mon­i­tor­ing guid­ance of a team of

Min­is­ters from Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Works and Trans­port, as well as Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

Fur­ther up­dates and in­ter­ven­tions will be forth­com­ing from the rel­e­vant agen­cies as we bat­ten down to ride out this pe­ri­od of weath­er emer­gency.

Please be safe and look out for our neigh­bours es­pe­cial­ly those who are un­able to prop­er­ly look af­ter them­selves.

Pay at­ten­tion to the up­dates and co­op­er­ate as much as pos­si­ble un­der these very threat­en­ing cir­cum­stances.”