The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) has ac­ti­vat­ed a com­pre­hen­sive na­tion­al re­sponse to Ad­verse Weath­er Alert #2 – Yel­low Lev­el, which re­mains in ef­fect from 6:00 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 17, to 6:00 PM on Mon­day, May 19, 2025.

The alert was is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) in an­tic­i­pa­tion of con­tin­ued heavy rain­fall and the as­so­ci­at­ed risks.

Over the past 24 hours, sev­er­al re­gions across Trinidad have ex­pe­ri­enced lo­cal­ized flood­ing, in­clud­ing ar­eas un­der the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, and Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

In re­sponse, the Min­istry said it has de­ployed all 14 Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions’ Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units (DMUs) to man­age in­ci­dents on the ground. 

These units are cur­rent­ly ad­dress­ing mul­ti­ple weath­er-re­lat­ed chal­lenges, in­clud­ing land­slides, fall­en trees, and flash flood­ing.

RDLG has al­so mo­bi­lized its as­sets to as­sist Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions and is con­duct­ing con­tin­u­ous field as­sess­ments to iden­ti­fy and pri­or­i­tize crit­i­cal ar­eas re­quir­ing in­ter­ven­tion. 

The Min­istry re­ports that co­or­di­na­tion with first re­spon­ders, util­i­ty providers, and lo­cal au­thor­i­ties is fa­cil­i­tat­ing a swift and ef­fec­tive emer­gency re­sponse.

The Min­istry has al­so ex­tend­ed an in­vi­ta­tion to vol­un­teer groups and cor­po­rate part­ners to sup­port re­lief ef­forts and rec­om­mends they co­or­di­nate with lo­cal Coun­cil­lors and Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions.