The residents and business owners at Stelling Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have the sea defences upgraded or repaired so as to prevent flooding whenever the tide is high.
When Stabroek News visited the area on Friday there was evidence of work being undertaken on the breaches with workmen driving planks into the ground and creating a makeshift wall of sandbags.
Efforts to establish which authority had
