The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) is ad­vis­ing parts of the coun­try cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing se­ri­ous flood­ing con­di­tions that it will take a while for the flood wa­ters to dis­si­pate be­cause of high tide at 1:30 pm, to­day.

The Min­istry is­sued a brief a short while ago, which al­so states that the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units (DMUs) of all 14 Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tions have been ac­ti­vat­ed and are stand­ing-by to dis­trib­ute sand­bags and oth­er es­sen­tials to their burgess­es need­ing such as­sis­tance.

The Min­istry al­so as­sures that Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cers cur­rent­ly are in the field, mon­i­tor­ing de­vel­op­ments.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) in­forms:

1. On Tues­day 4th Oc­to­ber 2022, Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) placed Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der Ad­verse Weath­er Alert 2 - Yel­low Sta­tus.

2. On its present course, the sys­tem is ex­pect­ed to move across the Wind­ward Is­lands dur­ing to­day Wednes­day 5th /Thurs­day 6th Oc­to­ber 2022.

3. The TTMS has in­formed that at present Trinidad and To­ba­go is be­ing af­fect­ed by un­sta­ble weath­er con­di­tions in­clud­ing pe­ri­ods of heavy rain fall with strong gusty winds in ex­cess of 55km/hr.

4. All Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice are in the field pro­vid­ing live on-site con­fir­ma­tion up­dates. Trinidad has ex­pe­ri­enced episodes of street and flash flood­ing and riv­er and river­ine breach­es are be­ing ac­tive­ly mon­i­tored. Please NOTE that runoff of wa­ter is im­pact­ed by High Tide at 1:30 pm to­day.

5. The Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG), the Hon. Faris Al-Rawi con­ferred with Gov­ern­ment Agen­cies, as well as through RDLG’s Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units (DMU) to all 14 Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions. RDLG al­so co­or­di­nat­ed with WASA, T&TEC, Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fense Force, Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice, Na­tion­al Quar­ries Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and SWM­COL.

6. A call to all agen­cies and re­sponse bod­ies was made to en­gage all prepara­to­ry and re­lief pro­ce­dures for the cur­rent ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions.

7. Re­ports of flash flood­ing in ar­eas have been re­ceived and the rel­e­vant bod­ies have been de­ployed to ad­dress ac­cord­ing­ly. The tide is cur­rent­ly rais­ing as high tide is at 1:30 pm, this will re­sult in de­layed runoff of flash flood­ing. Mo­torists are asked to ex­er­cise ex­treme cau­tion on road­ways.

8. Mem­bers of the pub­lic are en­cour­aged to reach out and com­mu­ni­cate with the DMUs of all 14 Cor­po­ra­tions to re­port flood­ing, re­quest for re­lief and oth­er is­sues that may lead to block­age of road­ways and wa­ter cours­es and/or which may pose a risk to life and prop­er­ty. Mem­bers of the pub­lic are al­so re­mind­ed to ap­proach their re­spec­tive cor­po­ra­tions for dis­tri­b­u­tion of sand­bags if nec­es­sary.

8. Please see be­low for DMU hot­line list­ing:

Ari­ma 800-2ABC (2222) Ch­agua­nas 800-DCBC (3222)

Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro 800-CTTC (2882) Diego Mar­tin 800-DM­RC (3672)

Ma­yaro/Rio Claro 800-4MRC (4672) Pe­nal/Debe 800-PDRC (7372)

Point Fortin 800-PF­BC (7322) Port-of-Spain 800-PSCC (7722)

Princes Town 800-PTRC (7872) San Fer­nan­do 800-SC­DU (7238)

San Juan/Laven­tille 800-SLRC (7572) San­gre Grande 800-SGRC (7472)

Siparia 800-4SRC (4772) Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co 800-TPRC (8772)