Heavy rains in To­ba­go yes­ter­day caused ma­jor prob­lems, with blocked roads, flood­ing, and pow­er out­ages af­fect­ing sev­er­al ar­eas.

Land­slides and fall­en trees left parts of Mo­ri­ah, Stud­ley Park and Ply­mouth Road im­pass­able.

The rain­fall be­gan just af­ter mid­night and con­tin­ued in­to the morn­ing. 

The To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA) re­port­ed 15 in­ci­dents, in­clud­ing three res­i­den­tial land­slides, two cas­es of road­way flood­ing, and fall­en trees dis­rupt­ing ac­cess along Gold­en Lane and Mo­ri­ah.

TEMA said in Run­nemede, a tree knocked down pow­er lines, cut­ting elec­tric­i­ty from Mo­ri­ah to L’Anse Four­mi.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion, along with TEMA and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly of­fi­cials, were work­ing to re­store pow­er and clear roads up to late yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

— Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les