In the af­ter­math of last week’s se­vere flood­ing that dev­as­tat­ed com­mu­ni­ties across sev­er­al parts of Trinidad, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni East, Dr Rishad Seecha­ran, says re­lief op­er­a­tions have in­ten­si­fied to sup­port the af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

The heavy rain­fall be­tween last week Wednes­day and Fri­day trig­gered sev­er­al weath­er alert warn­ings and left roads and home sub­merged, with many fam­i­lies grap­pling with sig­nif­i­cant loss­es.

Seecher­an yes­ter­day said he has been ac­tive­ly co-or­di­nat­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion of ham­pers and es­sen­tial re­lief items to those in need. Recog­nis­ing the ur­gent need for as­sis­tance, he has mo­bilised re­sources to pro­vide im­me­di­ate sup­port to flood vic­tims.