As the country remains in the grip of El Nino-inspired dry weather, the government is engaged in relief measures in six regions and pumping of water from the Shelter Belt in Georgetown has been reduced by 50%.
The November-December rainy season didn’t deliver sufficient precipitation and as predicted by El Nino watchers, the dry weather has continued into January and is projected to persist until the middle of this year. El Nino is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and is linked with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific. In some parts of South America it leads to heavy rain but in Guyana’s case dry conditions prevail.
The chairmen of Regions 2, 5 and 6 were reported by Stabroek News on Sunday as
