Corporate Guyana and members of the public have been assisting significantly with aiding the administration’s countrywide flood-relief efforts. This is according to their Prime Minister Brigadier Mark Phillips, who told the National Assembly on Thursday evening that the government has received in excess of $35 million in monetary donations to tackle the ongoing floods.
In providing an update on the situation, Guyana’s Prime Minister related that the massive rainfall experienced in the month of May alone, was recorded as the second highest rainfall across the country in the last 40 years.
He said that the hinterland, which continues to be hard hit by the flooding, is now experiencing threats to food security.
Countrywide, a total of 29, 300 households in more than 300 communities have been affected by the floods, including damage to their homes; distress to and loss of livestock and domestic animals; and destruction of crops, farmlands and other forms of livelihood.
