Calls are now be­ing made for the T&T Coast Guard and the De­fence Force to come in with boats and heavy-du­ty trucks to move emer­gency per­son­nel.

The pro­test­er who in­vad­ed the pitch dur­ing the World Cup game be­tween Por­tu­gal and Uruguay has been re­leased with no con­se­quences.

The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TTCIC) has called on the Gov­ern­ment to act swift­ly to ad­dress peren­ni­al flood­ing.

It said there will be spo­radic show­ers of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue over the next 24 hours. A medi­um to high chance of heavy show­ers and/or thun­der­storms still ex­ists which can pro­duce rain­fall ac­cu­mu­la­tion in ex­cess of 25 mm in a few ar­eas. 

Sev­er­al ar­eas in the Ma­yaro and Rio Claro re­gions are un­der flood wa­ters with some roads im­pass­able.

Can­di­date for the post of Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Karen Nunez-Tesheira, has writ­ten to the par­ty’s Elec­tions Su­per­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee re­quest­ing da­ta on the num­bers of PNM mem­bers who vot­ed in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tion over the week­end.

Sev­er­al Re­pub­lic Bank branch­es lo­cat­ed in parts of the coun­try hard hit by the cur­rent ad­verse weath­er sys­tems, have been closed tem­porar­i­ly.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is ad­vis­ing of the shut­down of the North Oropouche Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant on Thurs­day 1st De­cem­ber 2022, from 8:00 a.m. to fa­cil­i­tate the clean­ing of the Raw Wa­ter In­take and Sed­i­men­ta­tion Basin, which have be­come clogged by de­bris brought on by ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions. 

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for 18-year-old MARI­AH STEEL of Hillview Ter­race, Mt D’or, who was last seen on Sat­ur­day 26 No­vem­ber 2022.

The 51-year-old man of He­li­co­nia Dri­ve was jolt­ed from sleep around 11:20 pm by sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions. 

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says flight op­er­a­tions at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port are run­ning as nor­mal to­day, even as the coun­try re­mains un­der OR­ANGE Lev­el alerts for Ad­verse Weath­er and River­ine Flood­ing.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr. Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly says 52 schools across the coun­try have been af­fect­ed by this week­end's in­clement weath­er.