Nadaleen Singh

Fear and anx­i­ety gripped Mar­aval res­i­dents for about two hours yes­ter­day when land slip­page oc­curred at Sil­ver Trace, Sad­dle Road, due to heavy af­ter­noon show­ers. Around 2.30 pm, res­i­dents re­port­ed­ly saw the wa­ter lev­el ris­ing on Sad­dle Road and con­tact­ed the au­thor­i­ties.

Coun­cil­lor for the Mo­ka/Bossierre area, Na­dine Ro­many con­firmed that there was a land­slide that blocked the main artery in­to the dis­trict. Com­pound­ing the flood­ing prob­lem was de­bris which was caught in the main wa­ter­way. The block­age of the road caused traf­fic to pile up as far as the St Clair round­about. By 5.30 pm mem­bers of the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion were seen clear­ing the road­way of de­bris re­sult­ing in the flood wa­ters sub­sid­ing. Min­istry of Works of­fi­cials are ex­pect­ed to vis­it the area to­day to as­sess the dam­age.