Shas­tri Boodan

The Gran Cou­va Main Road suf­fered a ma­jor col­lapse on Mon­day.

The road start­ed falling apart on Sat­ur­day when it dropped as much as three feet in some ar­eas. The heavy rains over the week­end com­pound­ed the prob­lem and the road dropped fur­ther on Mon­day.

Res­i­dents said it was some­time be­fore noon that the road fell, mak­ing it to­tal­ly im­pass­able even for pedes­tri­an traf­fic.

Mo­torists tak­ing a de­tour along the nar­row Cameron Road said the land is al­so start­ing to slip on that stretch of road­way.

The 100-plus res­i­dents of Pep­per Vil­lager and La Ve­ga Vil­lage to the east of the land­slide said they are now cut off and will have to make a de­tour through Bras­so, which is al­so plagued with flood­ing and land­slides.

Ca­roni Cen­tral MP Arnold Ram said an­oth­er land­slide at Batchas­ingh Street and the Gran Cou­va Main Road had al­so wors­ened. He said a re­port was sent to the Min­istry of Works, the body re­spon­si­ble for the roads.

Ram said a WASA main in the La Ve­ga area al­so gave way.

He said Cen­tral is suf­fer­ing from ge­o­graph­i­cal ne­glect, with the Gov­ern­ment plac­ing em­pha­sis on dis­as­ters in north­ern Trinidad.