TRACKING ELSA: Get off the road, some high winds  at one a.m. – Abrahams 

Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Abrahams has made an urgent appeal for Barbadians to get off the road as soon as possible.

He said at midnight Friday that a band of wind and rain associated with Tropical Storm Elsa is expected to affect the island in just under an hour.

Abrahams said: “There are a number of people still on the roads, while we are not closing the roads, we are urging people who do not have to be on the road to please get off the road as soon as you can.

“There is a band of wind and rain that is preceding the main system and we expect that that should start affecting us from about one o’clock. So if you do not have to be on the road. I am urging you for your own safety to stay off the road.”