In rice fields along the Mahaica River, the pumps are working overtime. But Jaipaul Jaikarran says that he has already lost 50 acres of rice and a horse and a foal have died.

Every day he spends $30 000 for diesel to keep his pumps running and has been spending this amount for 15 days now to keep water out of his Handsome Tree fields, the elderly farmer…..