Prime Minister Mia Mottley says the reduction in the level of flooding in Holetown during recent heavy rains is an indication that the island’s Water Resource Management and Flood Resilience Project has delivered.She told attendees at this week’s St James Speaks town hall meeting that the Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) has been keeping the government informed and data suggest an improvement in the flooding patterns normally reported in that part of the country.“We have a Chief Meteorological Officer who keeps us up to date . . . and one of the things he said to me – because we now have water level radars and he sent me the graphs this afternoon – [was] that the water in the Holetown canal really only rose by two feet, which is unusual because it would have risen by far more had we not done the work before and then the other work that USAID [United States Agency for International Development] had been helping us with here in Holetown,” Mottley reported.
