Good Intent residents awake to find water in their homes

May 30, 2010 News

– as drunk attendant leaves koker door open

A West Bank Demerara koker attendant is in hot water because he fell asleep, leaving the koker open causing severe flooding in the village of Good Intent.

The flood waters from the Demerara River inundated the community, resulting in significant losses to livestock, even as the villagers were fast asleep.

Although it rained quite a bit early yesterday morning, the residents were not prepared for what they found when they awoke.
Shantie Alli said that she awoke around 3am yesterday and water had already covered a section of her floor.
“I wake up me husband fuh go and buy fish. When he go outside, he tell me dat de place full of water, like is rain but I tell he dat no kinda rain ain’t fall. I go in de kitchen and de whole floor full of water,” Ally related.
She said that when she opened her front door there was so much water that the occupants had to frantically gather sand bags in a bid to keep it out.
Meanwhile, Alli had already alerted her closest neighbours and they too got the shock of their lives when they saw what had happened.
Robert Rajroop said when his neighbour raised the alarm, he jumped out of his bed only for his feet to hit water as he tried to get up.
“Like I get excited because all me fridge, me settee deh under water. When me watch, everything duck down already,” Rajroop said.
Realising that the rainfall could not have caused the flooding, the residents immediately turned their attention to the koker which drains water from the village into the Demerara River.
“I just say, ‘boy you know something, like de koker bruck down, go see nah’,” Alli recalled.
When the koker was eventually examined, it was found that the structure was intact but it had been left open throughout the night.
“We try fuh close back this koker quick, and we start fuh holler out fuh people because we ain’t want nobody say we damage it. But water ah brace this koker door and you can’t do nothing,” Rajroop told Kaieteur News.
The residents managed to contact Regional Chairman, Julius Faerber, who immediately went to the scene.
“He come and he see heself how de place flood out but he say he can’t do nothing now,” Rajroop added.
According to Rajroop, when they called on the koker attendant, the man began using expletives to ward them off.
“He drunk. drunk, drunk. He tell we that this is not de fuss time this happen. He family ah tell we, like we come fuh kill him,” Rajroop said.
Rajroop’s wife, Bibi Salima Rajroop, lamented her losses which include damage to her entire bottom flat living room and very expensive music system.
She said that they would have accepted if the koker was damaged but for someone, who is paid to operate it, to leave it open is very distressing.
“If he want do koker wuk, he gat fuh know wha he deh pon. He can’t drink and do koker wuk. Dem gat fuh find good people fuh do de wuk,” another resident lamented.
The residents said that they were advised to contact another official from the area’s Neighbourhood Democratic Council but the man refused to show his face despite vociferous calls at his residence, adding to their frustration.
It is expected that the koker attendant will face disciplinary action similar to other attendants who operated in similar manner.
Thankfully, by yesterday afternoon, the water had drained from the land but not before residents had counted their losses.

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