Several parts of the Pomeroon remain flooded from an unusually high spring tide and poor infrastructure and residents want intervention from the Regional Democratic Council (RDC).
“We have just found out from one of the rangers that one of the kokers have no door so I was saying water was coming in all the time but it’s been like that for several years and it was reported and so far nothing has ever happened,” Chairperson of the Charity/Urasara Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Beatrice Mittelholzer told Stabroek News on Wednesday, highlighting that in addition to the recent sporadic flooding that was caused by the high tides, the heavy rainfall was adding to the farmers’ and residents’ woes.
Mittelholzer said that the Charity Squatting area, the
