Heavy downpour in Guyana over the weekend resulted in flash floods in various parts of the city, and Town Clerk Carol Sooba is blaming the City Council’s non-support of her for the problem.
Businesses and residents in the capital rushed to take the necessary precautions to safeguard their stock and property. They lashed out at City Hall for doing nothing to alleviate the problem even though they collect taxes every year.
With a lot of garbage piled up at various locations in the city, concerns are being raised about the need for persons to also take the necessary health precautions to guard against infections.
The recently-appointed town clerk is blaming the constant flooding in Georgetown on the many disgusting garbage pile ups in the capital city’s drains and trenches.
Sooba said the regular unhealthy practice of dumping garbage about the city is the root cause of the city’s floods. The town clerk noted that the situation is beyond her control as she does not have the support of the mayor and city councillors.
“The garbage is the main reason for all these floods…they want to keep these people on the road and so they keep dumping about the place all the time…as fast as we clean the place up, the people dump their garbage, so there is only so much we can do on our own,” the town clerk said.
Sooba, nevertheless, assured that all the kokers and pumps are working well and teams were clearing blocked drains, allowing for free flow of the heavy water accumulation.
Only recently, the entire Georgetown City and coastlands experienced a flash flood which caused many businesses and residents to suffer losses.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Ministry said the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), having been prepared to respond to the expected rainfall, dispatched a team of engineers and technical staffers to assess the situation.
Water accumulation has been recorded in Regions Two, Three and Four.
It was recorded at Cotton Field, Bush Lot, Anna Regina, La Bell Alliance and Three Friends in Region Two.
In Region Three, low-lying residential areas such as Parfait Harmony, Bagotsville, Good Hope and Tennis Farm in Canal Number One were all affected by the above normal weather pattern.
Several communities in Region Four were affected, including Buxton and Vigilance. The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), also suffered from the above normal weather pattern as agricultural lands from Ogle to Haslington were inundated, resulting in a halt to operation.
Since the above normal rainy period commenced, the Agriculture Ministry has commenced a number of emergency interventions which has seen outfall channels excavated and desilted.
