The Guyana Flood Website 

 Report for Monday February 14th 2005

Hello Visitors, the report for Monday February 14th is without photos, we will return to all of the villages very soon to bring you the shots of what should be the final stage of the removal of the floodwater from areas still affected. The high volume pumps (45000 gallons per minute) from the USA and Trinidad arrived in Guyana yesterday and these pumps will certainly bring much relief to areas in the so called "basin areas". Good Hope, Lusignan, Annandale, Buxton, Vigilance, Enmore and Strathspey are the villages which are still affected by the floodwater, even though there has been serious improvement in the lowering of the water levels in these areas, some homes are still with some 4 to 6 inches of water. We have now completed four weeks and moving into the fifth week of this devastating flood. Persons are still checking into the hospitals in Georgetown with symptoms of Leptospirosis and there is a growing fear of more persons becoming infected by the disease infested floodwater. Bryan Mackintosh

 Report for Tuesday February 15th 2005 

Hello Visitors, this is my final report on the flood that has devastated the entire East Coast of Demerara, it has been four and a half long weeks and I am happy to report that 99% of the floodwater have finally been pumped out from all of the villages, there are some very low areas and yards which still have a bit of water in them but with the hot sun and the high capacity pumps that arrived in Guyana a few days ago compliments of the government of Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America, those yards will be cleared of the very small deposits of floodwater by tomorrow.

This website got its origin when I decided to post a few of the flood photos so that my sister Jacqueline in Tampa could see what was happening in Guyana, well it has certainly grown from that simple beginning and today its has become the center of information for persons living outside of Guyana. Our photographs have been used by numerous international news agencies including CNN. We also provided the photos free of cost to numerous international relief agencies who used them in their presentations to garner fund from their head offices for Guyana's flood relief.

Today as I drove through the villages on the East Coast, it was as if someone had covered the place with a massive coat of brown paint, only the very tough plants actually managed to survive the four and a half weeks of flooding, there is no grass to be seen anywhere and with the last five days of really hot sunshine, most of the villages which were flooded just days ago are now bone dry.

With most of the floodwater now gone, the cleanup period has started and residents are busy trying to restore some sense of normalcy to their lives and homes, many have lost almost everything that they had worked so hard for, these are the people who will need our continued support so that hopefully they can rebuild their lives as quick as possible.

To all the persons, companies and organisations who volunteered to bring relief to the residents to those affected by this flooding, I wish to thank each and every one of you on behalf of my fellow brothers and sisters of the East Coast for your kind contributions at this critical period in our country's history, we have all proven as a  nation that we are capable of coming together for a common cause and when it mattered most, we stood proudly as Guyanese and gave our very best. Bryan Mackintosh

Ogle	Plaisance	Plaisance	Better Hope	Better Hope
Mon Repos	Mon Repos	Mon Repos	Mon Repos	Good Hope
Good Hope north	Good Hope south	Good Hope	Good Hope	Good Hope
Lusignan	Lusignan	Lusignan	Lusignan	Lusignan
Lusignan	Lusignan	Buxton Railway Embankment	Buxton now has the best looking outhouses in Guyana	Vigilance south
Vigilance	Vigilance	Enterprise	Melanie	Bachelors Adventure
Bare Root	Bare Root	This is the boat that I travelled in 2 weeks ago in Bare Root	Bare Root	Bare Root
Bare Root	Bare Root	Bare Root	Enmore	Enmore
The Enmore community centre ground	The Enmore ground fence did not survive the flood	The Enmore Martyrs statue	Enmore Sugar Estate	Enmore Estate houses
Haslinton	Haslinton	Haslinton	Haslinton North	picking up garbage in Melanie
Melanie	Strathspey	Strathspey	This cyclist was putting in some legwork this afternoon through Strathspey	Buxton cemetery was drying off
Kids playing in Buxton this afternoon	These outhouses were being built in Buxton this afternoon	Buxton	Just a bit more water in this yard in Buxton	This road in in Buxton was pretty dry
Annandale	Annandale	Annandale	Annandale	Annandale
Lusignan north	Lusignan north	Lusignan north	Lusignan north	Lusignan north
Annandale	Good Hope	The Good Hope cinema now a lot drier	Our Good Hope water marker with a lot less water today	This Good Hope north resident shows how much water is left
Mon Repos	Mon Repos	By tomorrow this yard in Mon Repos will be totally dry	This car swerved from a child and ended up in this canal in Mon Repos	An awesome rainbow over Georgetown this afternoon

Kite fliers at Happy Acres. Residents here suffered more than 20 days of flooding	This lad stands in front of one of our watermark building at Good Hope, had he tried to stand here during the flood, he would have been totally covered	The cinema yard at Good Hope is now dry, this area was totally flooded out.	This seems to be a dumping and burning area, tons of burnt waste can be seen in this photo	Another shot of this dump, the government claims that they have spent millions so far on the cleanup phase.
Lusignan another of our watermarks spots now  bone dry after weeks of blistering sunshine	This shop was closed for weeks, the owner lost most of his stock and had to restart from scratch	A lonely road in Enmore at about 1pm on Easter Monday	The crowds came out a bit later than usual, here at about 6pm there was not a place to park	Kites and more kites on the seawall, thousands of persons flocked to the seawalls to enjoy the Easter