Just over 31 miles from the city on the East Coast Demerara, and bordered by Zealand and Cottage, is a community called Planters Hall where the people live up to the name.
When I arrived at Planters Hall, the first thing I did was take a deep breath, which I had been wanting to do for a while but could not. That was because the villages leading to Planters Hall were smothered in the stench of stagnated sea water following a sea defence breach almost two months ago.
What I noticed was that plants of almost every kind, decorated yards and some parapets; just about everything was green and lush, unlike the yellowed grass seen in the villages leading to Planters Hall. Most of the village, except for one dam, escaped the floods.
