Lo­cal gov­ern­ment bod­ies have been pool­ing re­sources to deal with flood­ing, ac­cord­ing to Ryan Ram­per­sad, Chair­man of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TR­RC).

“It is known that the topog­ra­phy is dif­fer­ent across the coun­try, the Cen­tral cor­po­ra­tions are more flood prone than oth­ers, we have been able to get equip­ment from oth­er cor­po­ra­tions that are not flood prone as us so we have been able to do quite a lot of flood mit­i­ga­tion.

In ad­di­tion to that Jer­lean John, Min­is­ter of Works, have been tour­ing all the con­stituen­cies, every Wednes­day she tours con­stituen­cies with her en­tire Min­istry of Works team, not just the roads peo­ple—PURE and so on, but the Drainage Di­vi­sion,” Ram­per­sad said.

He added that while much work had been car­ried out, sev­er­al wa­ter­cours­es still need­ed clean­ing. He said in the new fi­nan­cial year the CT­TRC was look­ing for­ward to a larg­er al­lo­ca­tion to tack­le flood­ing and pur­chase ad­di­tion­al equip­ment. The cor­po­ra­tion cur­rent­ly has two ex­ca­va­tors.

Ram­per­sad said the CT­TRC con­tin­ued to fo­cus on flood pre­ven­tion, though flash flood­ing may still be un­avoid­able.