A lot of peo­ple have nev­er heard of the vil­lage of Mun­do Nue­vo in Tal­paro, and now res­i­dents are afraid that even if you want to check it out, you may not be able to.

Be­cause if you can’t nav­i­gate a road 4 feet wide next to an un­guard­ed 30 feet drop, then you may want to post­pone that coun­try­side dri­ve.

The 300-400 vil­lagers there are ac­cus­tomed to see­ing land­slips. But the one at the twelve and half-mile mark is too much to ig­nore. Right now to tra­verse that area it’s rec­om­mend­ed you have a light ve­hi­cle and a strong heart.

Res­i­dents said each day that goes by the piece of road­way breaks apart more and more. They’re fear­ful that it will take one heavy down­pour to change their re­mote vil­lage to a ma­rooned one.

“What we are look­ing at here is a pos­si­ble clo­sure and that will hap­pen short­ly, we will not be a part of Trinidad, if one show­er of rain comes the road will to­tal­ly col­lapse and it will mean iso­la­tion in this day and age,” said an an­gry Man­mo­han Gosyne the Pres­i­dent of the Mun­do Nue­vo Vil­lage Coun­cil.

He said for over a year they’ve made over­tures to the Works and Trans­port Min­istry with­out suc­cess.

And as res­i­dents looked on while he spoke, they were re­mind­ed of an­oth­er prob­lem that the land­slip brings. A yel­low band maxi taxi filled with school chil­dren care­ful­ly ma­noeu­vred its way around the edge of the precipice be­fore dri­ving in­to the vil­lage.

“Some of the par­ents de­pend­ing on the maxi and the break­fast van to reach up to the school, so far the maxi that car­ry­ing the chil­dren to Brazil High said if next week noth­ing is done, he not com­ing up here alone, so it will be re­al­ly hard if they don’t fix this road,” said Tri­cia De­onar­ine.

De­onar­ine mo­tioned to the di­rec­tion of an al­ter­na­tive road but she said, “that doesn’t make any sense nei­ther be­cause it just as bad in the back there.”

Poul­try farm­ers in the com­mu­ni­ty are al­so at risk of los­ing mon­ey as feed truck dri­vers are re­fus­ing to make the trip.

“I don’t know if the truck could come again, we are in a very crit­i­cal con­di­tion so I don’t know what will hap­pen, the dri­vers say they are risk­ing the com­pa­ny’s ve­hi­cles. We could lose tens of thou­sands of dol­lars,” said poul­try farmer Ku­mar Gosyne.

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter who said his team vis­it­ed the site on Thurs­day, Oc­to­ber 14 and tem­po­rary re­me­di­al work com­menced last night. Sinanan said at least three land­slips are on their radar but heavy rain­fall from the wet sea­son is de­lay­ing re­pair works.

Mun­do Nue­vo falls with­in the mar­gin­al seat of La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro.

“Boy is bet­ter we protest or vote out these peo­ple,” one pass­er-by shout­ed from his ve­hi­cle as he drove per­ilous­ly close to the edge.