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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Charlotteville clean-up almost complete

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Elizabeth Gonzales
555 days ago
20231221

Clean-up work in Char­lot­teville is near­ing com­ple­tion fol­low­ing heavy rain­fall and land­slides that caused sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to mul­ti­ple hous­es and flood­ed the en­tire vil­lage on Tues­day.

Emer­gency re­spon­ders were im­me­di­ate­ly dis­patched af­ter the main road near the Turpin bend was com­plete­ly blocked, mak­ing it im­pos­si­ble for any­one to pass. The To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency, along with oth­er au­thor­i­ties, quick­ly re­spond­ed to as­sist those in dis­tress.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the vil­lage ear­ly yes­ter­day, work­men were busy re­mov­ing de­bris and mud from the street and oth­er ar­eas.

Mean­while, of­fi­cers from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice washed dirt from the road and pave­ment. A res­i­dent whose home was af­fect­ed by the land­slide said there was sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to the house.

“The porch is what break away and part of the kitchen be­cause it dig out the con­crete from un­der­neath and the wa­ter come down in the drain, over­flow and un­der­mined the wall and break every­thing un­der­neath the house.

“T&TEC would have done what they need­ed to do. They as­sist­ed in the restora­tion of pow­er to homes that were dis­con­nect­ed and they start­ed restora­tion work on over­head lines that were pulled down be­cause of the weath­er yes­ter­day (Mon­day) evening.”

Stew­art said things should re­turn to nor­mal by to­day.


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