Kwakwani flood update

Civil Defence Commission

Press release 

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 

 

A team for the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) flew into Kwakwani, Upper Demerara-Berbice (Region Ten), to conduct assessments and provide support in the form of cleaning and sanitation supplies to Lamp Island, Kwakwani where floodwaters had affected residents.

The team, headed by Captain Salim October, comprising Lieutenant Lakshman Persaud, Corporal Delroy Carroll, and Mr. Stan Gouveia, met with the Regional Vice-Chairman Mr. Elroy Adolph, NDC Chairwoman Ms. Elise McPherson, Overseer Ms. Clasissa Hohenkerk and other NDC representatives before deploying to Lamp Island where the affected residents reside. 

Thirty (30) households were presented with cleaning hampers and disinfectant to aid in their cleaning due to the rising floodwaters that inundated their households. The CDC handed over an additional ten (10) hampers to the NDC to facilitate other households should the need arise.

According to the NDC Chair, the floodwaters are a usual occurrence brought on by the overtopping of the Berbice River, but she informed that while it usually abates with the tide; this time around it continued to rise without any of the expected tidal relief.

 

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