This reminds me when Communists Officials used to come to the US and take Photos of the South Bronx.  COMMUNISM is here to stay.

The highest recorded rainfall of 172.6 mm was reported at New Amsterdam in Region Six (East Berbice Corentyne). (Photo: stabroeknews.com)

Mits, YUh hear England flood out???

I have no interests in England.

USA:

By Gaulbert Sutherland

Barefoot, four-year-old Sara and her sister, Varshanie, three, stare forlornly at their water-logged, garbage-strewn surroundings on the Best Village foreshore.

Above water: The women of the Ramdass family gather together on Sunday at Radica’s home in Plastic City.

“We ain’t got nowhere to go, that’s why we come here,” their mother, Amanda Gouveia says. She knows that the perennially flooded, insect-infested flats amidst mangroves is no place to bring up her five children but reiterates that they have no place to relocate to. Other residents of Plastic City, a squatter settlement on the West Demerara with no electricity or potable water or any other service, say too that they cannot afford any place else. According to reports, Plastic City was so named because plastic was the main building material used in the original ‘houses’ there.

Susan Ramdass, 23, grew up in Plastic City and continues to live there with her husband and four children. She recalls that some time back Ministry of Housing officials visited, numbered each home and promised assistance with acquiring house lots but since then they have heard nothing. Other residents also recall a visit by Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali but say nothing has happened since. Over a dozen families live in leaking board and zinc shacks on the edges of Plastic City while others live in sturdier houses at the front.

The only dry place in Plastic City for the Ramdass children to play is on their tiny deck.

“We grow up small in here and we still living here,” Ramdass says. Like all the residents, the woman says if she is allocated a house lot elsewhere, she is willing to move. Plastic City, which floods during the high tides and never dries during the rainy season, is not healthy for children, she says. She points out that when the water rises, it floods the latrines. Her home is built with pieces of “crab bush wood”, wattles and covered with zinc. “None new brand material ain’t deh on,” she says.

Ramdass says her husband, Jaiveer Kumar Lall, a labourer, does not earn enough. “Just because people can’t do better mek people live here,” she says.

Some Plastic City residents on a stand they built to ‘hang out’ above the mud and water.

Rampattie Ramassar says the Housing Ministry had promised to assist with house lots. She says they had to fill up forms and send them in but have had no update so far. “I glad to move from here,” she says citing the flooding, mosquitoes and sandflies and the fact that they have to go a long way to fetch water for everyday use. Residents also collect rainwater.

Ramassar lives with her four children. She says she used to rent a house but can no longer afford this. She moved to Plastic City after she purchased a ‘house’ there. Ramassar, a vendor, says if a house lot is identified, she is willing to pay for it in instalments because she cannot afford to pay a lump sum.

Living in Plastic City was never meant to be permanent, she says. “We willing foh move if the people give we house lot cause the place is not nice for children and so.”

“If we coulda afford it, we nah woulda living here,” says Radica Ramdass, who lives with her husband and son in Plastic City. She says if they got a little help, they are willing to move immediately. “We ain’t want to live forever back here.”

Anand Persaud in front of his home in Plastic City; he moved there because the rent was too high elsewhere.

Some of the homes in Plastic City.

Her sister, Samantha is constructing a new home close to Radica’s. The mother of three says she too cannot afford to go anywhere else. Shanta Ramdass echoes a similar story.

Another resident, Roxanne Mayers says they cannot afford the $112,000, they are expected to pay for a house lot. “They only promising us and ain’t doing nothing,” she adds.

Over the years and recently, the authorities have been urging Plastic City residents to move.

No place to play: Sara (right) and Varshanie Chanderpaul (left) stand forlornly on the only piece of dry ground in Plastic City.

In March last year, Ali said that a risk assessment will be done in Plastic City and some persons may have to be relocated.

Meantime, Gouveia is also looking to construct a new home in Plastic City, moving out of the home two houses away where her parents died. As her daughters gaze at the numerous crabs scuttling across the mudflats, she adds that if she gets a house lot, she is ready to move.

Mits ease up, you exposing the violent side of the PPP.  The coming across really desperate these days.

Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy and Lionel Wordsworth, NDIA’s CEO

 

 

He however, referred all inquiries to Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Agriculture, who in November 2013 said that the pumps were here. But, one day later Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon refuted that and said some pumps were expected to arrive in Guyana in December 2013. All that Wordsworth was willing to disclose is that one of the pumps under the Surendra Engineering contract was operational at Rose Hall and civil works were ongoing at Canal Polder and Skeldon to facilitate the installation of pumps.

Nehru, did PPP/C find the pumps?

The only pump nehru finding is that sump in his "backyard".

A retirement community for Seniors like Dinosaur_Guy. It was gated.

When did the PPP visit the US?

That's not typical, but that is unacceptable.

But PPP under Jagdeo stopped being a poor people party.

That's what we have to get people to understand and stop giving them their votes.