00:00I want to urge residents as the orange level alerts continue to remain indoors during the
00:08periods of heavy rain and high winds. Avoid flooded roadways and rivers. Don't be a hero
00:16and try to drive through a roadway that is flooded. Your car could really wash away.
00:22The advice to motorists by Rural Development and Local Government Minister Khadija Amin
00:26during the post-Cabinet media briefing as Trinidad and Tobago continue to be under a yellow
00:31level weather alert while the Met Service placed river basins in central and south Trinidad
00:36under an orange level riverine flood alert. Thursday marked the first time that Prime
00:42Minister Kamala Passat-Busasa did not attend the post-Cabinet media briefing since her party's
00:47victory in the general election on April 28th. An explanation was provided by Works and Infrastructure
00:52Minister Julian John.
00:54So the other Prime Minister is in Cabinet and the meeting continues, okay? Prior?
00:59Yeah, that's the only reason she's not here right now. We didn't want to keep you waiting
01:05for too much longer. So she asked that we come out and because you would have wanted to know
01:10what was happening with this ongoing yellow alert that just seemed, the orange alert sorry,
01:17that seemed to be unrelentless. Yesterday I spent the day working in Tobago as a matter
01:22of fact and the flights were turned back. You know, flights that would have been gun clearance
01:29to take off from Tobago, get into Piyaco and vice versa had to turn back me there because
01:35they said the visibility was actually zero.
01:37Minister Amin thanked the Prime Minister for the leadership of the government's response.
01:41June Brown, TV6 News.
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