News Headline
Sinking into Paradise: Climate Change Worsening Coastal Erosion in Trinidad
Source
Inter Press Service News Agency
Publication Date
2015-11-24
PORT-of-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, Nov 23 2015 (IPS) - As unusually heavy rainfall battered Trinidad’s east coast a year ago, a lagoon here was overwhelmed, flooding a major access road to the island’s south-eastern communities. As the flood waters poured over Manzanilla beach, they washed sand away, caved in sections of road and collapsed a seawall at a tourist beach facility.