Following months of drought, residents of North and Central Rupununi, in Region Nine, are breathing sighs of relief as the rainy season appears to have arrived.
“We have had about 10 days of rain,” Colin Edwards, owner of Rock View Lodge, told Stabroek News on Thursday. “The water table is still low but water is back in the wells.”
However, a resident of the South Rupununi, which has been the hardest hit by the drought, said there has been only two days of rain—on April 15th and April 23rd–which is not nearly enough to offer the residents relief from their prolonged water shortage.
Almost two weeks after Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announc-ed a plan for intervention by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), its Director General Chabilall Ramsarup said yesterday that it is “now mobilising” the relief effort. “We are now mobilising and will be going in over the weekend,” he told Stabroek News.
He noted that they will mainly be taking supplies of water to
