The Aruka River continues to eat away at the nearby Kumaka waterfront, in the Mabaruma sub-region of Region One, where new revetments have started to sink into the river.
The community has been threatened by the river for several years and sometime in July last year, the Public Works Ministry via the regional administration mobilized equipment and material for work on revetments, which began later in the year.
A vendor at Kumaka told this newspaper that the authorities had empoldered a section of the community and several piles were driven into the ground near the waterside. The woman, who
