Dear Editor,
What has never happened in the 15 years and more than I’ve been residing in Cumberland Village happened last Sunday. Water advanced over my bridge through my yard. The entire area was flooded. New Amsterdam was flooded. Vryman’s Erven was a virtual swimming pool. All this and we are just at the beginning of the May-June rainy season.
Oh yeah, Berbice had definitely been under an “accumulation of water” – the famous euphemism for ‘flood’ that the Regional Chairman and his officers love to use.
The Regional Chairman and his officers as usual, were out in the fields on Sunday after the disaster, looking concerned and putting on the best act they could. It was actually aired on Channel Fifteen, edited of course. They tried to offer sweet words to a desperate bunch of residents – words that the “accumulation of water” would soon be over. In the midst of it, national songs played as viewers were entertained by scenes of the “accumulation of water” in the region.
So much “accumulation of water” in so little time with such little volume of rainfall? Again, the government is spending millions upon millions on drainage and irrigation in Guyana. Someone did not do their job properly.
Yours faithfully,
Leon J Suseran
