Rambachan: Distribute grants for people affected by Bret

Speaking with Newsday at his constituency office in Gasparillo yesterday morning, Rambachan said although damage in his constituency was minimal, there were around ten families in Brasso Venado in central Trinidad whose roofs blew off on Monday night.

“We need to get the National Self Help Commission and the minister responsible to move expeditiously to provide some kind of grant to these families so they could put their lives back in order,” Rambachan said. “Right now a number of them have tarpaulins for roofs on their homes.

“What is even more disturbing about this is that these are not people who can get back on their feet. They are people who are parttime employed, some of them very unemployed, in one case a single-mother and a daughter. They are low-income families.” Rambachan also praised the Couva-Tabaquite- Talparo Regional Corporation for its preparedness and its response to the minor emergencies in his constituency.