Com­muters at­tempt­ing to make their way in­to the cap­i­tal city, Port-of-Spain, found them­selves hav­ing to cau­tious­ly nav­i­gate flood­wa­ters in the vicin­i­ty of the Cen­tral Mar­ket and along South Quay.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that South Quay, be­tween Vieira Street and Pic­cadil­ly Street, in the vicin­i­ty of the re­ten­tion pond, re­mained un­der flood wa­ters as a re­sult of yes­ter­day’s heavy rain­fall.  At least one ve­hi­cle was seen stalled in the flood­wa­ters.

There are re­ports of a heavy traf­fic build-up along the East­ern Main Road and the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route head­ing west in­to Port of Spain.

Po­lice of­fi­cers are do­ing their best to reg­u­late the traf­fic, but it is prov­ing a chal­lenge with the vol­ume of per­sons ei­ther com­ing in­to the city it­self, or pass­ing through to head fur­ther west.

Traf­fic is be­ing di­vert­ed along Abat­toir Road, be­hind the Cen­tral Mar­ket, to South Quay just west of Pic­cadil­ly Street to pro­ceed in­to Port of Spain.

There al­so is heavy traf­fic head­ing west on­to the John John Fly­over to pro­ceed to Old St. Joseph Road, and there­after in­to In­de­pen­dence Square South.

Mean­while, clean-up op­er­a­tions are on­go­ing in Beetham Gar­dens Phase 3.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the en­tire com­mu­ni­ty, in­clud­ing Ser­vol, was af­fect­ed bad­ly by yes­ter­day’s flood­ing.  Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units and the Fire Ser­vices are ren­der­ing as­sis­tance to dis­tressed res­i­dents.