 The National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, and the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labor, continued to assess damage sustained following the heavy rains that occurred during the early hours of Thursday morning. The rains were due to a combination of weather systems. Amid to upper-level trough, together with an upper-level jet stream, the main access route between the north and south of the island, the Badlil, was damaged disrupting travel. Overnight teams worked to stabilise the section of the road in the aftermath of a landslide. Hermadi Mark has that story. The Ministry of Infrastructure is spearheading an emergency response to a landslide that occurred along the Badlil as a result of high-intensity rains early Thursday, April 29, 2021. Minister for Infrastructure Hon. Stevenson King at a media briefing said the situation is being managed as contractors are undertaking remedial works to bring relief to residents. Today, as you've been told, we are here. There is a contractor on site attempting to bring what I call temporary relief to the situation, and that includes the piping of the existing drain northbound to the left to allow for the continuation of the water to flow, but preparing it in a way that will increase the carriageway to allow a two-way traffic in the next few hours and for the next few days, and maybe weeks while the geotechnical investigations are done and the necessary engineering and other design activities are taken for possible future intervention. Speaking to the seriousness of the situation, Deputy Chief Engineer in the Ministry of Infrastructure Len Leon says the landslide revealed erosion of the undercarriageway. The situation, he explains, requires further assessment to decide upon a permanent solution. However, plans are underway to mitigate the issue and allow flow of traffic. As you can see behind me is what's going on to extend the carriageway on the other side of the carriageway. This has been done using crushed stone. We've already embedded wasco pipes underneath to continuously have the surface runoff water being able to continue down the Badlil. We are filling up right now with crushed run. We shall compact it and stabilize it, and then we shall put the asphalt surfacing on the top to make the actual carriageway, hopefully at least 6.3 metres wide, allowing vehicles to move in both directions. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure Ivor Daniels says they are working with utility companies to ensure these services are restored. I believe the power is restored. The water supply, I do not believe that there's much of it going through here, but I think the other utilities like flow perhaps are now trying to restore their own utility. But I think one of the critical ones is electricity. It is energy. So that has been restored in this area, making it as safe as possible. Because we also need to manoeuvre sooner or later an excavator below there, and it has to manoeuvre very safely to ensure that we can restore very clean water. Superintendent of Police Elvis Thomas on the safety of pedestrian says there are mechanisms in place to accommodate emergency personnel and people travelling to and from work using a shuttle system. So what we are doing, we have persons on either points managing who comes in. Persons can work to a certain point. There are shutters that are available. Persons on the ground who will manage how persons walk through. The area is not just a matter of coming through, but they will have designated areas to go through. There are persons who are assigned to ensure that those persons walking through are safe and no accident happens. So we want persons to be rest assured that we are doing everything in our power to work with them to ensure that they get to work but at the same time the work here is completed. The Superintendent cautions the public against spectator visits to the site and asks for cooperation and patience as the situation is being remedied. From the Government Information Service, Puma Di Mark reporting. The Med Office is urging the public to be cautious as the weather system will continue to cause cloudiness, showers and isolated thunderstorms over the eastern Caribbean region.