Maracas landslides a great danger

This, in my opinion, has intensified even more due to climate change. While in the past, you had a fair understanding of the weather condition especially in the rainy season, it is not uncommon to miss in your predication.

In layman language “rain coming out of nowhere without warning”.

To make matters even worse, what we have been having is a lot of landslides throughout the country.

My main concern though is the Maracas area which to me has an increase in traffic in July and August.

These landslides could one day cause serious injury to our citizens and visitors heading to the beach.

So far we have not had any major disaster of this nature but, we must not take it for granted. The signs are there for an impending calamity and these should not be ignored.

I will like to suggest to the authorities who look over these issues to see if it is possible to build retaining walls etc in the places most prone for these landslips.

I know that it can take some doing and everywhere cannot be done but there are some areas frequently visited by both citizens and others which are always under attack when the showers come. Probably people skilled in this area can be consulted.

I would not like to see lives lost in any unfortunate incident we do have many footage of this type of disaster all around the world.

Arnold Gopeesingh San Juan