On her first day in of­fice, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Khadi­jah Ameen, con­vened a se­ries of meet­ings with per­ma­nent sec­re­taries and heads of de­part­ment to ad­dress na­tion­al dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness ahead of the rainy sea­son.

Fol­low­ing these dis­cus­sions, Min­is­ter Ameen an­nounced sev­er­al im­me­di­ate ac­tions, in­clud­ing a di­rec­tive to the Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit (DMU) to de­vel­op and sub­mit a com­pre­hen­sive pro­gramme of works fo­cused on flood re­duc­tion in the Ca­roni Riv­er Basin and the Oropouche Riv­er Basin.

Min­is­ter Ameen al­so called for the es­tab­lish­ment of Stan­dard Op­er­at­ing Pro­ce­dures (SOPs) for dis­as­ter shel­ters.