All 14 Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units re­main on high alert and con­tin­ue to as­sist peo­ple who may be trapped in their homes due to flood­ing or land­slides.

Ear­li­er to­day, field of­fi­cers from the re­spec­tive DMUs vis­it­ed crit­i­cal ar­eas that were re­port­ed­ly af­fect­ed fol­low­ing wide­spread flood­ing of sev­er­al rivers stretch­ing from Matelot in the north­east to Ma­yaro, to con­duct dam­age as­sess­ments and dis­trib­ut­ing re­lief items as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.

Sea­son­al rain­fall oc­ca­sioned by an ac­tive In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ) and a trop­i­cal wave has caused rain­fall to af­fect rough­ly 80 per cent of Trinidad and To­ba­go, a state­ment from the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment said.

Cit­i­zens are kind­ly asked to re­main vig­i­lant and ex­er­cise cau­tion when tra­vers­ing the na­tion’s road­ways, es­pe­cial­ly in low ly­ing ar­eas and moun­tain­ous routes that may be prone to land­slides.

Ar­eas af­fect­ed

* Tumpuna Road lead­ing to San Raphael is flood­ed and cur­rent­ly im­pass­able. Cit­i­zens are asked to seek al­ter­nate routes;

* Land­slides have af­fect­ed the Matu­ra Road;

* Grande Riv­iere Riv­er and Shark Riv­er have breached their banks;

* Plum Mi­tan and Biche is cur­rent­ly flood­ed and im­pass­able to ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic at this time;

* M1 Tasker Road, Broth­ers Set­tle­ment and Garth Road, Williamsville;

* Wood­land, Batchiya Vil­lage, Aquart Vil­lage, Pe­nal Rock Road, Clarke Road, Lowkie Trace and parts of La­choos Road;

* Madrass Road, South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni South­bank Road, Pi­ar­co By­pass Road, En­deav­our Road, Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road in the Ca­roni area;

* Sun­rise Park, Trinci­ty;

* Kent Street, Williamsville and Bois Jean Jean Main Road, Moru­ga;

* Poole Val­ley, Cu­napo South­ern Main Road, Union Vil­lage, in the Poole Dis­trict;

* Mafek­ing, Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Main Road in the Ma­yaro Dis­trict;

* Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way be­tween Or­ange Grove Road and O’meara Road, Ari­ma;

* St. He­le­na By-Pass Road is cur­rent­ly im­pass­able

* EMR in the vicin­i­ty of the De­ten­tion Cen­tre and Thomas Trace, Arou­ca