Cli­mate Change Ed­i­tor

As Trinidad and To­ba­go heads in­to what some of­fi­cials ex­pect to be an ac­tive rainy and hur­ri­cane sea­son, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has launched a month-long na­tion­al pre­pared­ness cam­paign.

Speak­ing at the launch of Na­tion­al Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Pre­ven­tion Month (NDPPM) 2026 on May 1, Ameen said the min­istry’s “31 Days of Pre­pared­ness and Pre­ven­tion” cam­paign comes at a crit­i­cal time, warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go can­not af­ford to wait un­til the first storm warn­ing to act.