The Guyana Flood Website

The rain must have listened to the prayers echoing all over Guyana and the world and gave the aid delivery crews a much need ease today. Even with the lack of serious rainfall today, the East Coast remains as flooded as ever and the pumps that have been placed all along the east coast seem unable to move the millions of gallons of water that has totally flooded out areas as far as Mahaica and all the way down to Pattenson on the East Coast. Patterson is just 1/2 of a mile from Sheriff Street. The suffering of the people that I saw has increased and they need all the help that they can get. the situation is getting more desperate by the minute.

 We visited the President of Guyana at State House today and saw a truly overworked and concerned Head of State trying his best to put measure in place to alleviate some of the suffering of his people, I had my reservations about how much the President was doing but after seeing him answering hundreds of phone calls and giving out countless instructions to the people that he has working in the affected areas. There is no doubt that the President needs as much help as he can get and this website will do all that we can to assist in any way, right now we are dealing with getting over this flood disaster, we shall return to the business of politics after this is all over. Bryan Mackintosh

On our visits to the flooded out areas, I saw lots of businessmen out with their staff delivering the much needed aid to victims of this devastating flood. The work of these concerned and generous individuals must not go unnoticed and I wish to congratulate Japarts Auto Spares, Kaieteur News, Mings Products, Banks DIH, DDL, Chetsons, Dreamworks Development, B K Construction, HN Tony, BM Soat Auto Sales, Gaffors and many other who we will try to get their names a bit later for their generous contributions to the flood victims.

Mission Tradewind: We have decided to work in conjunction with the various distribution centers already established, this way we will not be bogged down at one point but will be able to keep mobile to offer a wider range of help to persons affected. Sheik as Managing Director of Tradewind Furniture and Construction Ltd  (http://www.tradewindguyana.netfirms.com) has decided to use his factory building which is located in the former glass factory compound on the Soesdyke Highway to house victims of the flood. This huge building is 200 x 100 feet and has all the necessary toilet facilities. This building has not been affected by the flooding because of its location. We are sure that it can house at least 600 persons. The transfer of affected persons has started and you can contact Sheik on Tel # 592-614-6053 if you wish to go to the shelter there.

Mings Products boat heading into the back of Cummings-Lodge	The embankment highway just outside of UG	Sheik waiting for me with the multi coloured car	Team from the Ministry of Housing with food items	The Army was out to make sure that everything was ok
The croc was seen on the Industry embankment highway	Someone did not believe me yesterday when I mentioned that crocs were around	The flooded Industry embankment highway	People waiting on the Industry embankment highway for aid	Kaieteur News team giving bread to flood victims
This road into Ogle airstrip was more flooded than yesterday	I joined Minister Sheik Baksh's team as they went into Ogle to share out aid	Villagers coming out to receive foodstuff	Minister Sheik Baksh directing the aid operation in Ogle	Teammate Sheik Yassen helping to share out foodstuff and water
Sheik Yassen at work	More villagers coming	Ogle villagers receiving aid	Villagers said that this was the first such aid packages that they had received	The flooded embankment highway
The newly constructed CARICOM headquarters under water	The Chinese funded construction site flooded out.	Lake View Hotel's location, they got the lake now all they need is the hotel	Patterson, just 1/2 of a mile from Sheriff Street	Bel Air Village, even closer to Sheriff Street.
Bel Air Park was flooded out also	The Church on Sheriff Street had its share of water	The Avalanche Disco threatened by the high water	Side Street by Leo's Store, Sheriff Street	Section K Campbellville
The entrance to South Ruimveldt	Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt	Food hampers being packed for mass delivery at Ray Rahaman's compound, Houston	Ray Rahaman taking a break after working all nigh to oversee the aid operation	Packages waiting to be sent to the affected areas, this set was soon off
Mr. Karran Singh spearheading the operation at Ray's building	The now cleared Koker near to Toolsie Persaud, this koker was out of operation for some 12 years	Stabroek Market was quite dry when we passed there	The Bank of Guyana area was also dry	Main Street, Georgetown
Team member Sheik Yassen talking with the President at State House	Bonny Singh of Japarts at the packaging center	The name on the bags shows the tremendous support that Japarts has given to flood victims	Your truly Bryan Mackintosh at the Command Center at State House today	Briefing the President at the Command Center at State House
Our team, Sheik Camille and Daniel Gajie	The head of the Met office giving us an update	BK trucks outside of State House waiting to mover off with flood aid.	Bourda Market was dry	Parts of Lamaha Street was under water