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A Gov­ern­ment MP says ear­ly in­ter­ven­tion by state agen­cies has helped spare Ca­roni East the usu­al flood­ing, even as heavy rains con­tin­ue across much of the coun­try.

“We are pleased that even with the ma­jor rain­fall, the com­mu­ni­ties have been spared the dev­as­tat­ing sea­son­al floods com­mon in pre­vi­ous years,” said Ca­roni East MP Dr Rishad Seecher­an. “This is the re­sult of ma­jor co­or­di­nat­ed flood mit­i­ga­tion ef­forts that were launched as soon as the Gov­ern­ment was sworn in.”

He said ar­eas like Chin Chin Road, Cunu­pia and El Car­men, which pre­vi­ous­ly faced sig­nif­i­cant dam­age, had so far re­mained dry. How­ev­er, “a few iso­lat­ed in­ci­dents of dis­lo­ca­tion and in­con­ve­nience” were re­port­ed, in­clud­ing a stu­dent at Pe­tersville who was un­able to sit a CSEC ex­am­i­na­tion.