Indigenous communities still feeling effects of last year’s flooding

Toshao of Annai Michael Williams (Orlando Charles photo)

It’s been just over a year since flooding devastated homes and farmlands across Guyana but Indigenous communities in regions Seven and Nine are still feeling the effects.

In fact, toshaos from Indigenous communities located in the two regions now see the 2021 flooding disaster as only the start of the hardship they would have to endure in the ensuing months due to changing weather patterns.