People’s Progressive Party General Secretary Clement Rohee on Monday lauded the government’s $1B “Clean-up My Country” campaign, while stating that the massive flooding that resulted in the city and along the coast after torrential rainfall last week could have been worse without it.
“We wish to conclude that the impact could have been worse, had it not been for the ‘Clean-up My Country’ campaign, which, in our view, played a major role in draining parts of Guyana,” Rohee said at the party’s weekly press briefing.
He noted that “empirical evidence” suggests that the campaign did make a contribution to ease the flooding, which in some parts of Georgetown was well over two feet, but said tallying whether the contributions were high or modest would need to be determined by experts.
He also said more needed to be done to maximise the “significant investments” made by the government.