There is still no evac­u­a­tion plan in place for Port-of-Spain, de­spite years of traf­fic grid­lock and re­peat­ed in­ci­dents that have left the cap­i­tal locked down.

The rev­e­la­tion came dur­ing a sit­ting of the Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee on Land and Phys­i­cal In­fra­struc­ture of the Par­lia­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day, as Op­er­a­tions Man­ag­er at the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment, Den­nis Mar­celle, re­spond­ed to sus­tained ques­tion­ing from Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Kennedy Swarats­ingh.

When Swarats­ingh asked whether there was an evac­u­a­tion plan for Port of Spain, Mar­celle replied, “No, sir, the plan ex­ists.”