Guyana has refused a large consignment of food items offered by Trinidad and Tobago to help with flood relief efforts. Instead, through Foreign Minister Hugh Todd, Guyana has said that pumps are said to be needed to meet the urgent demand for enhanced drainage capacity.
This is according to the Guardian Media out of Trinidad and Tobago. The newspaper proclaimed that Guyana has chosen not the accept food as part of the flood relief assistance but instead asked that pumps be shipped for the need of draining the excess water off the land.
When the made contact to work out the logistics for delivery, T&T was told the items were unnecessary, instead what is needed is are water pumps.
The report further noted that this was clarified in a letter signed by Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Hilton Todd dated June 18, 2021. The letter gave new directive to the twin-island republic. It stated that there is need for pumps to remove excess water, but nothing else on the consignment list that they provided to Caricom.
Over the past few months Guyana has been grappling with the flood situation all across the country with water reaching as high as seven feet in some areas.
