Flood preparedness exercise planned by civil defence body

`Ex Flood Gate 2010’, an exercise to test the national response system to a flooding incident in Guyana will be conducted by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

The exercise, Director of the CDC Colonel Chabilall Ramsarup said during a table top exercise last week, is the first of its kind and will be conducted in limited areas in regions four and five; possibly in the vulnerable areas of Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary.

In a press release on December 15, the Government