Pe­ter Christo­pher

Af­ter­noon rain in west Trinidad caused land­slides in Care­nage and ris­ing wa­ters in Diego Mar­tin and Mar­aval yes­ter­day.

Chair­man of the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Su­san Hong con­firmed that the dis­as­ter man­age­ment team was called in­to ac­tion af­ter the rains.

She said a wall fell at Hill­crest Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley, and there were nu­mer­ous re­ports of land slip­pages in Mar­aval, Pe­tit Val­ley.

The most sig­nif­i­cant was a slip­page along the West­ern Main Road in Care­nage, which blocked the ma­jor­i­ty of the road­way.

While Hong was thank­ful that flood wa­ters in ar­eas such as Per­se­ver­ance, Hale­land Park, St Lu­cien Road and Di­a­mond Vale ran off quick­ly, she said the many re­ports of land­slips were wor­ry­ing.

“To­mor­row we will be able to make a prop­er as­sess­ment of all the homes af­fect­ed,” she said.

There were re­ports of wa­ter en­ter­ing the homes of res­i­dents along St Lu­cien Road.

In Mar­aval, Diego Mar­tin North East MP Colm Im­bert vis­it­ed sev­er­al ar­eas along the Mar­aval riv­er which had been af­fect­ed by flash flood­ing. How­ev­er, he de­clined com­ment on the ex­tent of dam­age in the area and would on­ly say that he was mak­ing as­sess­ments of the sit­u­a­tion.