By Khadidja Ba
As Linden residents grappled yesterday with ongoing flooding and property damage following 48 hours of heavy rainfall, regional officials and the Opposition Leader heaped blame on the government for the problems in a rebuttal to claims on Tuesday by Prime Minister Mark Phillips.
During a visit to Linden yesterday, Stabroek News spoke with Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon, Region 10 Chairman Deron Adams and Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton. They all shared the view that the flooding could have been easily prevented and that the disaster was a direct result of the government’s failure to act on proposals put to it.
Norton posited that it was only recently that communities in Linden started having drainage problems. He said the main reason for this happening was the stifling of resources to the Region and Local Authorities by the current administration and the allocation of resources to political activists instead of the people with the competencies to do the jobs.