Flash flooding, fallen trees as heavy rains batter Trinidad and Tobago
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Fire officers remove a fallen tree along the Mayaro/Manzanilla road on Saturday. - Ministry of Local Government, disaster management unit
Bad weather on Saturday has left a South Oropouche single mother of three children pleading for assistance to repair the roof of her wooden home after it was destroyed by a falling coconut tree.
Anrah Vanessa Jordan, 45, of Coker Street, St Mary’s Village said they were awakened by a loud crashing sound around 3 am on Saturday and saw a coconut tree crashed onto her sons bedroom.
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Mayaro/Rio Claro Corporation chair calls for local government reform
MAYARO/Rio Claro Regional Corporation chairman Raymond Cozier wants local government reform.
He made the call last Thursday at the UNC s True Talk virtual public meeting.
“We need to have a new local economic development strategy. Our communities are in a serious dilemma,” Cozier said.
Cozier joined other council members who complained about bad roads, a lack of basic resources like access to water, and all-round bad management of the country by the PNM.
He also knocked the PNM for not making good on their promises.
“This is a time we really need a Government that has the capacity and tenacity to be creative and develop new ideas. But this (PNM) leader has no plan and no vision. Right now we don’t know where we are, and what is our next move. No amount of scaremongering is going to sustain any solutions to the situation.”
While there have been no new reports of yellow fever-infected monkey carcasses being discovered, a senior wildlife officer is still warning the population not to let their guard down.
In an interview with Guardian Media, Game Warden Two Steve Seepersad advised members of the public to get vaccinated and take the necessary precautionary measures.
At a Ministry of Health briefing on February 24, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said a sample taken from a monkey carcass was sent for testing at the Caribbean Public Health Agency lab and it came back positive for the virus.
The virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected Aedes Aegypti mosquito, from one person or animal to a person.
Corporation head calls for action on sabotage claims
ANGRY: Chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation Raymond Cozier. FILE PHOTO -
THE chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation (MRCRC) wants Minister of Rural and Local Government Kazim Hosein to investigate claims of sabotage within the corporation.
At the latest statutory meeting on Thursday at the corporation building in Rio Claro, Raymond Cozier complained that the administrative staff is deliberately undermining the corporation’s entire operation.
He accused the staff, including CEO Ashmead Mohammed and a transport foreman, of failing to inform the council about issues.
Cozier charged that the transport department has been shut down for the past week yet no official report was submitted to council members.