A land­slide in Bel­mont has dam­aged a home on Bel­mont Val­ley Road.

Around 3:30 pm on Fri­day, a mas­sive mound of dirt from the land­slide left Kami­ni Mo­hammed and her hus­band, Ahamad, with a gap­ing hole at the back of their con­crete and brick home and al­so dam­aged their wall. For­tu­nate­ly, for the cou­ple, their chil­dren and grand­chil­dren were not in­jured.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Mo­hammed said "It was a good por­tion of the hill that came down at the back of the house. There is an­oth­er house at the top. The wall broke down at the back of the house from the im­pact of the huge amount of dirt.

"It is cracked in three pieces, two pieces of iron are hold­ing up the wall tem­porar­i­ly.

"Since morn­ing friends and neigh­bours have been help­ing move the de­bris, we don't know how far back the land­slide is but it is re­al­ly big."

She said to ex­ac­er­bate the sit­u­a­tion, the rain was caus­ing more loose dirt and de­bris to come down from the hill and wa­ter was en­ter­ing the house by the breached wall and shat­tered win­dow lou­vres al­though she had spread a large tar­pau­lin on top of the hill.

Mo­hammed said she called the ODPM (Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment) on Fri­day, and the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion told her it didn't have any ve­hi­cles at that time but sent her a tar­pau­lin.

Coun­cil­lor for Bel­mont North and West Ak­il Durham spoke to Guardian Me­dia af­ter his vis­it to Mo­hammed's home Sat­ur­day.

He said he took pho­tographs and in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the land­slide and for­ward­ed them to the cor­po­ra­tion's Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit, city en­gi­neers, CEO and build­ing in­spec­tors. Durham said when he re­ceives the tech­ni­cal re­port from the en­gi­neers, he can be ad­vised on how best to as­sist the fam­i­ly and to re­pair the home.

He said there was an­oth­er land­slide last week not too far away from Mo­hammed's home, that dam­aged the prop­er­ty of Melis­sa Sam­jawan on Al­bert Lane Bel­mont.

Durham said, how­ev­er, Sam­jawan's house sus­tained min­i­mal dam­age and he al­so sent her in­for­ma­tion along with pho­tographs to the chief en­gi­neer and chief build­ing in­spec­tor for them to make vis­its and to give him tech­ni­cal ad­vice on how to pro­ceed.