ODPM

The media has been flooded with politics regarded flooding. The new Prime Minister has been flying around in a helicopter and taking tours of the flooded areas - inflicting her whims on the local elected representatives as she sees fit to the chagrin of just about anyone who wants to be chagrined. The rains come, Acts of God as any Insurance company would have in their legal documents, but I'll note that there doesn't seem to be a large proportion of people going to their respective places of worship and discussing rain with their Creator.

This article in today's Trinidad Express suggested that the T&T government has mandated that all T&T organisations collecting money and supplies for relief efforts in Haiti must handover their collections to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM). To quote the article: