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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Chaguanas Mayor tells residents be proactive to prevent flooding

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Shastri Boodan
20 days ago
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Chaguanas West MP Dr Neil Gosine, left, Mayor Faaiq Mohammed, and Councillor Sundar Jookoo prepare to plant trees at the Pierre Road Recreation Ground on Wednesday.

Chaguanas West MP Dr Neil Gosine, left, Mayor Faaiq Mohammed, and Councillor Sundar Jookoo prepare to plant trees at the Pierre Road Recreation Ground on Wednesday.

SHASTRI BOODAN

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed is call­ing on res­i­dents liv­ing in flood-prone ar­eas to adopt a proac­tive stance in safe­guard­ing their prop­er­ties dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

Speak­ing to the me­dia on Wednes­day, Mo­hammed stat­ed that sand­banks have been es­tab­lished at eight strate­gic lo­ca­tions across the bor­ough, al­low­ing burgess­es to fill their own sand­bags in prepa­ra­tion for ad­verse weath­er.

“We are ask­ing peo­ple that live in flood-prone ar­eas if you need sand­bags get them be­fore the bad weath­er. Don’t get it dur­ing the bad weath­er. It is avail­able right now and you can get that,” he said.

The may­or em­pha­sised that the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion is ac­tive­ly en­gaged in the de­silt­ing and clear­ing of drains and ma­jor wa­ter­cours­es. He dis­closed that $129,000 from the cor­po­ra­tion’s ex­ist­ing bud­get has been al­lo­cat­ed to source equip­ment for the clean­ing of these wa­ter chan­nels.

Mo­hammed al­so said ad­di­tion­al funds would be ear­marked in the up­com­ing fi­nan­cial year specif­i­cal­ly for drainage im­prove­ment works.

May­or Mo­hammed made these re­marks dur­ing the launch of a bor­ough-wide tree-plant­i­ng ini­tia­tive at the Pierre Road Recre­ation Ground, where he was joined by Ch­agua­nas West MP Dr Neil Go­sine. The event marked the com­mence­ment of a project to plant 1,000 poui trees across the con­stituen­cy.

Go­sine re­vealed that the ini­tia­tive is part of a broad­er plan to en­hance the aes­thet­ic ap­peal of Ch­agua­nas West, not­ing that both yel­low and pink va­ri­eties of the flow­er­ing tree would be plant­ed.

“The tree plant­i­ng ex­er­cise was to as­sist in the beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy,” he said. The plant­i­ng is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed over a month.

Go­sine al­so said that forth­com­ing in­fra­struc­tur­al work would be un­der­tak­en along the banks of the Ca­roni Riv­er to help mit­i­gate the risk of flood­ing.


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