Kwakwani floodwaters rising again

Before and after images showing the Jeep Landing and Moses Forde shop in Kwakwani, Berbice River on March 3 and June 5 (Photo: Lance DaSilva)

Unrelenting rainfall over the past three days have resulted in flood waters in Kwakwani rising even higher just days after inundated residents began reporting that it was starting to go down.

“The rain come like it want bore yuh house top and for two days and half it fall. Today, (yesterday) we had mus’e quarter day sunshine and rain set up again. But this water level raise higher than where it was before it went down a few days ago,” resident Elroy Adolph said yesterday.

According to him, residents are determined to wait out the rainy periods but the situation is worsening. Should heavy rainfall continue as predicted into August, he said residents will be forced to move to higher ground.