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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

MP Charles: Do your job Minister Sinanan

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Rod­ney Charles wrote to Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan plead­ing for help for the con­stituents of the ar­eas af­fect­ed by the heavy flood­ing. He in­di­cat­ed that noth­ing has been done as yet to solve the on­go­ing is­sues. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the MP.

MP Charles is call­ing on Min­is­ter Sinanan to bring re­lief to the 300 homes se­vere­ly af­fect­ed by flood­ing in Ben Lomond, Har­mo­ny Hall and Re­form fol­low­ing last week’s rains.

The Guaracara Riv­er is in need of im­me­di­ate dredg­ing and de­silt­ing to al­le­vi­ate this is­sue. Min­is­ter Sinanan in­di­cat­ed that this was on the agen­da since 2019 un­der the flood mit­i­ga­tion and ero­sion con­trol pro­gramme. How­ev­er, two years lat­er, res­i­dents still face this riv­er break­ing its banks every time it rains heav­i­ly.

Fur­ther to this, MP Charles wrote a let­ter to the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port in Sep­tem­ber2020 to high­light the plight of con­stituents of Ben Lomond, Hard­bar­gain and Williamsville who have been af­fect­ed by flood­ing due to the block­age of this ma­jor wa­ter course. Al­most a year lat­er and noth­ing has been done.

Some flood vic­tims have lost thou­sands in crops, live­stock and per­son­al be­long­ings. It is in­tol­er­a­ble that there is still no re­lief for flood vic­tims.

MP Charles is call­ing on the Min­is­ter to ful­fil his promise. The con­stituents of Na­pari­ma have been vic­tims of the Gov­ern­ment’s ne­glect for far too long.


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