RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Hun­dreds of meals, clean­ing sup­plies and clean drink­ing wa­ter are be­ing dis­trib­uted to flood-strick­en ar­eas in South Trinidad as res­i­dents in Pe­nal be­gin the ar­du­ous task of clean­ing up.

While the floods re­ced­ed in some ar­eas like the Pe­nal Rock Road and Bar­rack­pore, over five feet of wa­ter was re­port­ed to be un­der peo­ple's homes at La For­tune, Wood­land and Ra­hamut Trace, Debe.

Coun­cil­lor for Av­o­cat Dood­nath Mayrhoo told CNC3 News that peo­ple have been ven­tur­ing out in­to dan­ger­ous flood wa­ters to buy food as they could not cook. He said teams from the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit have start­ed dis­trib­ut­ing meals from Sub­way as well as 60 home-cooked meals.

Mean­while, the coun­cil­lor for Pe­nal Shan­ty Boodram al­so dis­trib­uted over 200 meals to res­i­dents of Clarke Road, Ra­ju Trace, Naipalia Trace, Teel­mul trace, Sun­rees Road, Pe­nal Quinam Road and var­i­ous parts of San Fran­cique.

"While the wa­ter has gone down in Rock Road, we are still see­ing some flood­ing in Clarke Road be­cause of il­le­gal landown­ers who have blocked up wa­ter cours­es," Boodram said.

She al­so urged peo­ple not to leave their homes to get food by wad­ing through floods.

"If you are in dif­fi­cul­ties please call the DMU or mes­sage me at 741-0757," Boodrasm said.

Coun­cil­lor for Bar­rack­pore West, Nicholas Kan­hai al­so dis­trib­uted over 150 meals to res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore.

" We are go­ing to car­ry clean­ing sup­plies in ar­eas where the flood­ing has gone down and we will con­tin­ue to pro­vide bot­tled wa­ter and food items," he added.

Over 1,000 sand­bags have al­ready been dis­trib­uted by the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.