Three months af­ter warn­ing that To­ba­go’s wind­ward coast was un­der siege from sar­gas­sum sea­weed, To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says help is fi­nal­ly on the way.

MacLean con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that some of the spe­cialised equip­ment promised un­der a US$25 mil­lion Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) ini­tia­tive has ar­rived in T&T.

The project, fund­ed by Japan, is be­ing shared among five Caribbean is­lands, with part of the sup­port des­ig­nat­ed for Spey­side, To­ba­go.