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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

With flood­wa­ters fi­nal­ly re­ced­ing in sev­er­al parts of cen­tral Trinidad, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties have turned their fo­cus to clean-up ef­forts, dam­age as­sess­ments and long-term in­fra­struc­ture con­cerns.

Dur­ing a site vis­it along the Ca­roni River­bank near Shel­don Trace yes­ter­day, Coun­cil­lor for St Au­gus­tine South/Pi­ar­co/St He­le­na Richard Ram­per­sad said the past few days have been “ex­treme­ly hec­tic” as com­mu­ni­ties strug­gled to re­cov­er from se­vere flood­ing ear­li­er in the week.