A to­tal of 93 weath­er-re­lat­ed in­ci­dents were re­port­ed across Trinidad and To­ba­go be­tween Sun­day and Mon­day, fol­low­ing heavy rain­fall that marked the of­fi­cial start of the 2025 rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

From Sat­ur­day evening un­til Mon­day, the coun­try was placed un­der an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, which led to thun­der­storms. In some ar­eas, rain fell con­stant­ly for 12 hours, vary­ing in in­ten­si­ty.

Flood­ing was the most preva­lent haz­ard, with 38 in­ci­dents record­ed across sev­er­al re­gion­al and mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­istry said the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion re­port­ed the high­est num­ber with 12 cas­es, fol­lowed by the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion and Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, each with eight. Oth­er af­fect­ed ar­eas in­clud­ed San Juan/Laven­tille, Princes Town, Ma­yaro/Rio Claro and Siparia.

In ad­di­tion to flood­ing, the min­istry record­ed 24 in­ci­dents in­volv­ing haz­ardous or fall­en trees, 15 land­slides or land­slips, and 12 cas­es of high winds or roof dam­age. Three struc­tur­al dam­ages and one fire were al­so re­port­ed, while no tor­na­does oc­curred dur­ing the pe­ri­od.

The min­istry con­firmed that while the Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert has been dis­con­tin­ued, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has de­clared the rainy sea­son of­fi­cial­ly un­der­way.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the co­or­di­nat­ed ef­forts of sev­er­al agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Units, Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions, the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, and the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries. She cred­it­ed their swift mo­bil­i­sa­tion with help­ing to sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duce the im­pact of the re­cent se­vere weath­er.

“The pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed and the im­me­di­ate mo­bil­i­sa­tion of all stake­hold­ers col­lec­tive­ly helped con­tain the ef­fects of flood­ing and pro­vid­ed time­ly re­lief to af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties,” Ameen said.

Re­lief ef­forts were wide­spread, she said, with over 1,000 sand­bags dis­trib­uted to at-risk com­mu­ni­ties, in­clud­ing 500 to Princes Town and 172 to San Juan/Laven­tille. Ad­di­tion­al re­sources such as tar­pau­lins, sheet sets, mat­tress­es and poly­thene sheets were dis­patched to ar­eas ex­pe­ri­enc­ing dam­age and dis­place­ment, the min­is­ter added.

Flood mit­i­ga­tion ef­forts re­main on­go­ing across all 14 mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions, the min­istry not­ed. Ad­di­tion­al equip­ment has been de­ployed to en­hance pre­pared­ness and drainage ef­forts.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cord­ing to the min­istry, has called for ad­di­tion­al equip­ment to clear ne­glect­ed wa­ter­cours­es in the Pe­nal/Debe re­gion.

It added that mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions have al­so be­gun prepar­ing emer­gency shel­ters in vul­ner­a­ble com­mu­ni­ties.

Ameen al­so high­light­ed ar­eas where age­ing or in­ad­e­quate in­fra­struc­ture con­tributes to re­cur­ring flood risks. She said meet­ings are sched­uled in the com­ing days to de­vel­op tar­get­ed in­ter­ven­tions, es­pe­cial­ly in his­tor­i­cal­ly flood-prone ar­eas like Pe­nal/Debe.

Shel­ter man­agers have been as­signed, and stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures have been re­viewed to en­sure readi­ness.