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And the relentless rains have put pressure on drains, streets, highways and roads. Yesterday, we saw a sinkhole form at the foot of the Bermudian Landing Bridge.
Aside from that, we asked the Infrastructure Development Minister if there have been any other emergency repairs.
Julius Espat, Minister of Infrastructure Development & Housing
"Nothing major. Well, let's put it in context. We get requests of problems every day, 365 days a week. When the rain comes, it increases that level. But it's nothing out of this world that we are not dealing with. Our main problem is resources and equipment. When we got this ministry, there was absolutely no equipment. So gradually every year we were adding to our fleet. And why is it important that the ministry itself has equipment for the same reason for emergency as you're seeing to be able to do a contract it takes months to be able to activate something. And that's why it's important that the ministry has resources and equipment to be able to mostly deal with emergency situations, which we are dealing with it a little better than than it was being dealt with before. And hopefully as we move along, we can deal with it even better. It will never be 100%. We are dealing with 8867mi². We are dealing with a large network for the small population, we are dealing with low lying areas and, and we are dealing with a lot of rains and it's increasing as we go along. Every year it becomes more and more and more. But that's what we were, in my case, that's what I was elected to do. And the Prime Minister gave me this responsibility, and I'm doing it to the best of my ability, but I can't do it without the team that we have, the CEO, the chief engineer, all the engineers, everybody, especially the guys on the ground. People don't understand that the employees of MIDH work seven days a week, day and night and they do it, I think they do it with a smile and that's important."
