AFC leads West Berbice protest over flood losses

AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan and Region 5 Chairman Harrinarine Baldeo exchange words as protestors look on yesterday.

Residents of Bath Housing Scheme and No. 11 Village yesterday braved the rain to demand reimbursements for crops lost to floodwaters, in a protest led by the Alliance for Change (AFC) at Fort Wellington.

The West Berbice residents claimed that most of the flooding, which they suffered during last month, was not as a result of rainfall alone. According to them, GuySuCo pumped water out of the fields and it got into their homes and crops,