Several villages along the East Coast Demerara were swamped yesterday in the wake of heavy rainfall that hit the coastland in the wee hours of the morning.
Among those heavily hit were Le Ressouvenir and Lusignan where nearby trenches were overflowing even though kokers were open. Children were forced to stay indoors after flood waters began to rise and the Education Ministry announced a rain day for all public schools in Georgetown, along the East Coast and East Bank Demerara. It further announced last evening that Chateau Margot Primary was the only East Coast school that was to remain closed today owing to the flooding.
Some villagers complained of damage to their cash crops. “Some of we get plants and it damaging we cash crop,” a villager from