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A landslip caused several parts of Trinidad to experience a disruption in electricity supply on Tuesday around 7.30 pm.

Affected areas included Woodbrook, Diego Martin, Maraval, Cunupia, Palmiste, Freeport, Fyzabad, Macoya, Marabella, Curepe, St Augustine, Trincity, Sangre Grande, Vistabella, Siparia, Arouca, Tabaquite, Moruga, Point Fortin and other areas. Power was restored to several areas by 9 pm.

T&TEC general manager Kelvin Ramsook said there was a landslip in Rousillac which “caused a tower to be affected.”

The transmission tower collapsed, leaving about 30 per cent of the country without electricity.

In a WhatsApp voicenote, the commission’s corporate communications manager Annabelle Brasnell added, “One of our critical transmission towers, a 220kv transmission tower, fell, leading to approximately 30 per cent of the customers without supply.

“This tower brings power from the TGU plant in La Brea. As such, we are getting no supply from TGU at this point. Our engineers are currently assessing the situation. Load shedding is taking place.”

As recently as August 6, several areas across Trinidad had no electricity, starting around 9 am. The outages were blamed on the generating plant of an independent power producer. Electricity was restored to all affected areas by the end of the day.

And on February 16 there was an island-wide blackout when Trinidad lost electrical power for over ten hours. The blackout was caused by a tree falling on a distribution line, causing it to come in contact with another line resulting in the system tripping, again in Rousillac.

Scheduled disruptions were expected on Tuesday as T&TEC announced planned maintenance work in Couva, Tableland, Craignish, Sangre Grande, Blanchisseuse, Guaico, Plymouth, and St James.

General maintenance work is also expected on Wednesday in Plaisance Park, Moruga, Barrackpore, San Francique, Morvant, Manzanilla, Guaico, Castara, and Studly Park.

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An interdiction of drugs reportedly valued at well over a quarter-million dollars took place at the Deep Water Harbour during a joint exercise on Monday, August 15.

Reports say the Police and Customs Department seized a total of 59 pounds of marijuana, which were found in 39 vacuum-sealed packages inside a barrel.

Officers took the controlled substance, valued at $354,000, to Police Headquarters, pending further investigations.

But, as the boasted “crackdown” on the flow of illegal drugs into the country continues, criticism is mounting again. Residents are asking whether the local agencies are working with United States authorities to determine who, exactly, is exporting the drug here.

At the same time, they are asking, yet again, why the authorities are not allowing the drugs to be cleared at the ports and then arresting and charging those who receive them.

“I told you all already,” a businesswoman tells REAL News; “this set-up smells fishy.”

For 2022, at least a dozen interdictions have been made at the respective ports of entry, including at the Fed-Ex Storage Shed at the V.C. Bird International Airport.

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