People sit on their fat asses and make excuses for politicians rather than telling them to get up and do some for the suffering people who have to live through this disaster everyday. A picture tells a thousand words. PPP, APNU and AFC are all bullshit when it comes to natural disaster, flooding, garbage disposal and crimes throughout the city of Georgetown. No more excuses...they're all no frigging good. 

Bhai, GT People PRAPA STUPID.

Was Water Street too flooded ?

In his rush to badmouth Guyana this idiot post picture from 2005. 

Notice how the fool neglect to blame Green and the PNC controlled GT for the issues in GT.

It is important to recognize the areas of responsibilities.

A. Mayor and Council, Georgetown, has the responsible to maintain the drainage systems within its jurisdiction in proper conditions.

2. Guyana Government has the responsible for the operation and maintenance of the outfall systems.

This global warming is bad for everyone

Global warming is nothing new for it existed for millions of years in the past and will continue for millions of years in the future.

For example, numerous years ago, Canada was like the tropical countries where dinosaurs roamed the land, until the ice-age came and conditions, of course, changed to what is evident today.

D_G, you left this out:

3. Citizens of Georgetown have a responsibility and civic duty not to dispose of trash in the drainage gutters and canals, and not to throw solid waste on the streets.

Valid point which is applicable in each area of Guyana, Gilbakka.

With every opinion taken into consideration, the problem still remain unsolved. Another heavy rainfall and it will get worst. I posted two pictures from 2005 to show that this problem started seven years ago and continued today. Guyana being under sea level, you would think the government would make it a priority to improve the sea defense and make sure all irrigation systems are functional at all times. Constant flooding is a national security concern, but it is treated like something Guyana enjoys.

Flooding of Guyana's coast land has occurred for centuries; and these issues are nothing new.

When Guyana was first colonized centuries ago, there were plantations miles in front of the current sea walls. In time those lands become inundated and eventually the sea wall was constructed and exist today.

Some remnants of the places that existed in front of the sea walls can still be seen.

The reality is that Guyana's coast land is about ten feet below sea level, and hence the challenge was, is and will be for centuries ahead to maintain as best as possible flooding of the coast land.

Guyana's drainage system depends on the tidal effects in that when the tides are low, that is the time when water can be released from the various sluices. A problem that has occurred at many times is that the tides are high, the sluices have to be closed and there is heavy rainfall thus resulting in flooding.

Another major problem is that Guyana's coast land is subjected to cyclic erosion because of the effects of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers. This effect can cause complete or partial erosion of beaches rendering them to mud flats.

The excuses from the PPP are getting more desperate by the day. 20 years in power and still blaming everyone else except the incompetent PPP contractors.

The Dutch recognized centuries ago that GT is prone to flooding, and built a flood defence system suitable for those days. It is not a new thing brought on by climate change. Those are PPP excuses.

But the PPP wants to flood even more of Guyana. Their excuse is that they want to build an electricity generating plant powered by water.

But we have loads of water in GT. Why don't they built an electricity generating plant by the coast close to GT?

What happened to the Doppler Radar Tower which was built at a cost of $550 million. Why were no severe weather warnings relayed to the public? Another half a billion dollars white elephant.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...-550m-doppler-radar/

Four years after it was commissioned and innumerable bouts of severe weather later, the $550 million Doppler Radar project intended to provide up-to-the-minute weather reports isn’t doing so leaving some to conclude that the European Union and Guyana-funded project is a failure in that respect.

Commissioned since October 2009, the up-to-the minute aspect of the Doppler is yet to be utilized by various stakeholders.  Severe weather warnings can give stakeholders valuable time to prepare as in the case of yesterday’s flash flooding. Yesterday’s heavy downpours caught tens of thousands of residents unawares.

Although the Doppler process is partially available via the HydroMet Services website, the vast majority of the Guyanese populace is not privy to what exactly the Doppler is reading. The website, www.hydromet.gov.gy, itself is complicated to navigate and seemingly requires some knowledge of how to read radar imaging

MOVE THE CAPITAL

* The PPP should move the capital from Georgetown in Region 4 to someplace in Region 6.

* Let the PNC/AFC supporters who dominate Georgetown perish and drown.

* Once the capital is moved---the PPP farmers can then stop selling their produce in Georgetown.

* In that way the PNC/AFC supporters in Georgetown can be slowly starved.

THE REV--A MAN OF NUMBERS AND ALSO A MAN OF SOLUTIONS.

Rev

HEHEHE  GT People PRAPA STUPID!!!   DEm gun sit easy while Hammie and his wife full dem pocket. I don't know of a more STUPID bunch of People.

Check them out---the poor souls have been brainwashed by the PNC:

*They will starve and drown but still clutch onto the PNC.

* And don't forget the dirty PNC Indians.

Rev

Your expert advise on the flooding reassures me of the problem and not the solution to the problem. If Guyana can afford it, they should seriously look for expert advice from the Dutch and give them the contract to save Guyanese from drowning.

Dummy, the solution is simple, move to higher ground inland. Why spend billions to fight nature when nature will always win.  Right now in NJ the state is buying up areas flooded by Sandy and forcing the residents out, turning the land into parks. 

Ok, smart ass. How much would it cost to move an entire city, its businesses and people and where you suggest the government should put them? Take into consideration how long this movement will last and becomes normal for Guyana again. No wonder them boys say you does think with you balls.

Experts from Holland reviewed the issues for ages and placed structures at various locations.

Countries worldwide that border the oceans/seas experience similar issues on a yearly basis e.g., US_of_A, Canada, Britain, Holland, Japan, etc..

Belize moved its capital to the interior of the country and still experience similar problems with the areas that border the sea/ocean.

Gilbakka regrets to inform Rev that this is not an original idea.

Way back in 1972 the then Prime Minister of Guyana, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, announced a plan to move the capital from Georgetown to Matthews Ridge in the North West District.

Mr Burnham told the nation that Matthews Ridge stood on high ground and had a deep-water port that was ideal for international shipping.

Too many bad things happened after Mr Burnham's announcement and Georgetown remains the capital.

Rev, that was one of Burnham's plan. To move it to Lethem or thereabouts. In the interior. The man was truly a visionary.

After spending U$ 4 mil on pumps, after 2 years....

"Ramsammy says pumps here, Luncheon says no"

Just one day after Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy confirmed that all 14 pumps from Surendra Engineering have arrived in Guyana, Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon has refuted this.
According to Dr Luncheon a meeting was held and some of the pumps are expected to be in Guyana in December contrary to what Minister Ramsammy said. With Dr. Luncheon’s statement now, it is unclear whether the “pumps” which were procured at the cost of US$4 million are really in Guyana.
Efforts last night to contact the Minister proved futile.
Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy on Thursday said that all 14 pumps which the Ministry had bought from India-based Company Surendra Engineering in 2011 have been delivered.  According to Dr Ramsammy, some of the pumps are already in operation while others are being installed.
Ramsammy told Kaieteur News that pumps are currently being installed at Patentia, Bagotstown, at Number 19 Village in Berbice, Windsor Forest, Pine Grove, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, and Albion, Corentyne, Berbice.
The Minister said that one is being shipped to Lima on the Essequibo Coast. The Minister further indicated that pumps at Canje, Rose Hall, Bengal, Crabwood Creek, and Black Bush Polder have been completed and are working.
Engineers from Guyana were sent to India to inspect the drainage pumps.  The issue has been a controversial one ever since the government handed Surendra Engineering a US$4 million contract two years ago.
The pumps were bought through an Indian line of credit.
The government described the equipment as being “critical to meeting medium and long term plans to manage the effects of climate change, which over time have been threatening the country”.
Ramsammy noted that each pump will have the capacity of discharging up to 200 cubic metres of water per second. Current pumps have the capacity of 150 cubic metres per second capacity.
Surendra Engineering, in addition to supplying the pumps, is responsible for the provision of technical support and training.
The pumps were to be initially delivered since December 2011, and an extension was granted to September 2012.
Together with the assets of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the country would be boasting a capacity of almost 100 pumps, inclusive of both fixed and mobile, officials of the Agriculture Ministry had said last year.

Question for the experts: When the government will start moving to high ground and abandon GT due to the constant flooding? This year, next five year, next ten years, or when. That should be a simple question to answer. 

Guyana experienced much more flooding and inundations during the 1800's than are currently occurring.

I had provided details of the 1800's flooding issues a number of years when the major floods were in Guyana.

DG u sayin that because the place has flooded since time began, is no use try and either halt it, slow it down or move the inhabitants out?

Cain, the issue relates to mitigating the effects of the sea's activities, with reference to coast lands being about 3 feet below high tide.

One effective measure is to build dykes - sea walls - to address the issue, recognizing that the discharge of flows is dependent on the tidal variations.

Now, indeed there is an option to build dykes that are about three or four times higher than the current ones in all places of Guyana that are affected by the tides.

There is another option to move the residents of the coast lands and islands into the interior where there is no effects of the sea.

Will you find the resources to complete one or both of these undertakings?

Of note ... flooding in inherent for the coast lands of Guyana, with much of the current system developed by the Dutch and British and of course now by Guyanese.