RHON­DOR DOWLAT

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says luck­i­ly, no lives were lost dur­ing Wednes­day’s ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions.

How­ev­er, he re­port­ed that there were sev­er­al land­slides, fall­en trees and a few re­ports of dam­aged homes.

Dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day af­ter­noon along with the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA), Au­gus­tine al­so said that sev­er­al ar­eas to the north of the is­land were left with­out pow­er.

By 5.30 pm, most ar­eas had pow­er re­stored but there was an area in Mo­ri­ah where two crews from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion were said to be work­ing fever­ish­ly to re­store pow­er.

Au­gus­tine said he had all area rep­re­sen­ta­tives out on the field con­duct­ing the nec­es­sary as­sess­ments with emer­gency of­fi­cials and ar­rang­ing to bring the nec­es­sary re­lief.

It was not­ed that there was 85 mm of rain­fall record­ed and that 25 mm more is ex­pect­ed to­day (Thurs­day).

Along the road­way at Wood­lands, Mo­ri­ah, was com­plete­ly blocked due to a fall­en tree.

In De­laford, a home was par­tial­ly de­stroyed as a re­sult of a col­lapsed re­tain­ing wall to the back of the res­i­dence. The ad­verse weath­er caused land slip­page which fur­ther led to the col­lapse of the wall.

Au­gus­tine had ear­li­er an­nounced that schools were dis­missed ear­ly and all pub­lic of­fi­cers/work­ers with­in the THA were al­so al­lowed to leave work im­me­di­ate­ly.

Crews were said to be out all over the is­land up to late yes­ter­day.

Many rivers were said to be at their max­i­mum lev­el, es­pe­cial­ly with the rise in spring tides and high tides.

TEMA as­sured that they are mon­i­tor­ing con­di­tions all around the is­land, as they ex­pect heavy rain­fall to con­tin­ue and al­so ex­pect­ing some rel­a­tive­ly strong winds to the East of the is­land.