Regional Chairman of Region Five, Bindrabhan Bisnauth has assured that government will provide excavators to commence empoldering in the Abary Creek because the water has now started to recede rapidly.
He told Stabroek News in an interview that no substantial work was done in the Abary as in the case of the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks because of the high level of floodwaters. Farmers in those creeks were also able to empolder their “private holdings.”
Residents suffered losses to rice, cattle, poultry and cash crops as