At the conclusion of a four-day review, the Dutch Risk Reduction (DRR) Team on Thursday presented its preliminary recommendations on Guyana’s drainage system and emphasised the need for a technical and managerial upgrade.
According to a Ministry of Public Infrastructure statement, the three-member team, which departed yesterday, presented its findings to Public Infra-structure Minister David Patterson and Agriculture Minister Noel Holder during a wrap-up session on Thursday at the boardroom of the Ministry of Agriculture.
“If you don’t manage it properly, the system will fail and if your water system fails, your country will fail,” Team Leader Rob Steijn was quoted as saying during the presentation.
He said the system needed to be crucially addressed and noted too that the government’s predictability to drainage issues must be improved.
