{"id":29847,"date":"2026-05-13T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=29847"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:36:02","slug":"third-tropical-wave-expected-bringing-more-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/third-tropical-wave-expected-bringing-more-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Third tropical wave expected, bringing more rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-gov&#8217;t expands drainage capacity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-by David Clarke <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is strengthening drainage capacity in the capital city and\u00a0other vulnerable communities.\u00a0The local Hydromet office is warning that a third tropical wave is expected to affect\u00a0Guyana tomorrow, bringing heavier rainfall on Thursday and Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of preparations, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha visited Riverview in Georgetown,\u00a0where a second drainage pump has now been installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The internal drain is clogged up.\u00a0The city council has not put in any interest to clean these drains, and we&#8217;ll have to take\u00a0it over and look to see what we can do to do the internal cleaning of these drains,&#8221;<\/strong> he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two excavators have since been deployed to Riverview to begin clearing clogged internal\u00a0drains and other blockages affecting water flow.\u00a0Minister Mustapha says drainage works done by central government over the years have\u00a0already improved drainage in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The work that we have done in and around Georgetown and other parts of the country, we are having\u00a0less time, the water accumulated for less time here now, and this shows that the work\u00a0that we have done over time, we are draining the city faster,&#8221; <\/strong>the minister said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents in vulnerable and low-lying communities are urged to remain alert as monitoring and\u00a0emergency response efforts continue nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-gov&#8217;t expands drainage capacity -by David Clarke The government is strengthening drainage capacity in the capital city and\u00a0other vulnerable communities.\u00a0The local Hydromet office is warning that a third tropical wave&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,855,370,412,405,1003],"class_list":["post-29847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-drainage","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-rainfall"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}