MP for St. Au­gus­tine, Khadi­jah Ameen called on Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan to ad­dress the flood­ing is­sues sur­round­ing the Black­man Ravine in Curepe.

She said parts of the con­stituen­cy in­clud­ing Knowles Street, Ec­cles Trace, Ab­dul Lane, Black­man Lane and oth­er streets could be af­fect­ed by flood­ing again. Ameen be­lieves the source of the flood­ing is the Black­man Ravine . She said how­ev­er re­cent works to the Kay Don­na over­pass fur­ther ex­ac­er­bat­ed the is­sue re­sult­ing in the in­tense flood­ing to the low­er Curepe area.

She al­so called for the speedy com­ple­tion of the Ma­coya drain along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route which be­gan ear­ly this year.

"The rainy sea­son has ar­rived and work which was sched­uled to be com­plet­ed some time ago is still on­go­ing, lead­ing to res­i­dents be­ing fear­ful now that flood­ing has re­sumed," she said.

MP Ameen said she be­lieves the gov­ern­ment can mit­i­gate flood­ing through ad­e­quate plan­ning and pre­ven­tion mea­sures.