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Newly appointed Local Government Minister Khadijah Ameen has started a national flood mitigation campaign, which she said will see the immediate deployment of equipment and manpower to clear drains and watercourses to prevent flooding.
Ameen has vowed to be proactive, rather than reactive, to floods.
Speaking at the launch of the initiative yesterday, Ameen revealed that an entire warehouse of equipment has been sitting idle, even as flood victims struggle to rebuild their lives and farmers suffer devastating losses every year. Her first order of business is to immediately begin clearing rivers and tributaries from the South Oropouche Drainage Basin, Caparo Valley rivers, Caroni River Basin, North Oropouche waterways, Diego Martin rivers, and rivers flowing out of the Rio Claro region.
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