The THA has to be preventative in its construction and maintenance of roads. Rains will fall and often excessive run off must be managed. Plan for that. Do not wait until you have to spend millions, because the water found its way across the road to erode the lower slope and cause the road to break off with the landslip. We have to have a culture of anticipating disaster, not one where we get caught sleeping and then begging for charity and sympathy.
Nobody can stop the soil from refusing to soak up more water.
The soil loses its integrity as a solid structure to turn soup under such conditions. But our negligence, mediocrity and incompetence were ingredients in this tragedy. The Ministry of Tobago Affairs. 10 St. Vincent street, Port of Spain.