Photos by Mariah Lall
One month after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding, residents of Chenapau Village, Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) are struggling to get back on their feet.
Chenapau resident Nick Carter told Stabroek News during this newspaper’s visit to the village last week, that though the community had experienced similar floods in 2004, last month’s incident still managed to catch them off guard.
“We were going about our normal lives, you know, going to the backdam and those things when the rain started suddenly. One whole day and one whole night of rain and the waters crept up on up as while we slept. The force of the water even pushed one of my uncle’s house from its original position into a bush… Other houses were totally covered by the water leaving some
