Parts of Bartica experienced flooding after heavy rain early yesterday morning coupled with an unusually high tide, leaving members of the business community counting significant losses and damage to goods.
The Guyana Power and Light Inc at First Avenue near the river was forced to halt operations after the compound was flooded, but by midday electricity was restored to the community.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday afternoon Regional Chairman Holbert Knights explained that around 04:00 hrs the community was hit by heavy rainfall. He said that usually rainfall is drained by “gravity feed” into the river through three major outfalls. Unfortunately at the time of the rainfall, “we had one of the highest tides and the water was unusually
