RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca­s­ookraj@guardian.co.tt

Flood wa­ters are still ris­ing at var­i­ous parts of Pe­nal and Bar­rack­pore fol­low­ing sev­er­al hours of overnight rain­fall.

At Sam­my West Trace, a wall col­lapsed with the force of the floods while at Ra­hamut Trace Mar­i­lyn Boodoo and her fam­i­ly had over three feet of wa­ter in­side their home. An ur­gent re­quest for a pump was made from the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit.

Along Pe­nal Rock Road near the five-mile mark, over two feet of wa­ter re­mained on the street, stretch­ing for over a mile. Good­man Trace was im­pass­able.

At Ra­goo­nanan Trace, Si­mi Ja­mu­na and Roger Mans­ingh hur­ried­ly board­ed up their pluck­shop as the low-ly­ing ar­eas be­came in­un­dat­ed.

Mans­ingh said the drains were clogged and every year they suf­fer from floods.

“We have moved out the poul­try stocks and we are pray­ing for this wa­ter to go down,” he said as the floods rose.

Chair­man of the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Gow­tam Ma­haraj said heavy equip­ment is on stand­by to clear wa­ter­cours­es while the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment team has been as­sist­ing res­i­dents.

He called on the gov­ern­ment to re­lease $21 mil­lion al­lo­cat­ed in the last fis­cal bud­get for de­vel­op­men­tal projects. Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.