Over a hundred residents of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara are counting their losses from flash flooding, which has been blamed on the negligence of an excavator operator working on a newly-constructed sluice.
Residents of the community were awakened after 3 am yesterday to shouts alerting them of water rushing into their homes. “I hear this water fall like… I keep hearing shhhh so I said is rain, I gon’ sleep some more. As soon as I about to fall back in a doze, I hear my neighbour shouting ‘Bibi water coming in we house.’ I jump up and by time I open the door water all over, it just keep rising,” Bibi Zoreena told Stabroek News.
While it was the fourth breach that has occurred since the construction of the sluice began, the residents said it resulted in the worst flooding of its type.
