Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday met with residents from several communities in the Port Mourant area on the Corentyne Coast and assured them that the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) was working to mitigate flooding across the coast.
With Guyana stepping into the May/June rainy season, the minister along with a team from the ministry met with residents to listen to the issues affecting them. He informed the residents that based on data gathered by the Hydromet Department, this year’s rainy period will have conditions similar to that of 2021.
He told the residents that the ministry has been working with the various regional bodies to put systems in place to avoid a recurrence of what took place last year.
