The Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter is call­ing for a full re­port from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), af­ter hun­dreds of com­muters and mo­torists from South, Cen­tral, and East Trinidad were stuck in traf­fic for hours yes­ter­day morn­ing, as the au­thor­i­ty re­paired a rup­tured pipeline along the west­bound lane of the Beetham High­way.

The traf­fic night­mare oc­curred as the na­tion’s chil­dren re­turned to school on the first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year.

“While I do com­mend their ef­forts, I have no in­ten­tion of sug­ar­coat­ing it. I do be­lieve that they need­ed to do bet­ter in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the pub­lic,” Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath said yes­ter­day.