The Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has called on the Se­nior Dis­as­ter Co­or­di­na­tor in the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment to ex­plain to res­i­dents of the area who have been af­fect­ed by floods, how they should adapt to flood­ing.

Ear­li­er this week Jer­ry David ap­peared on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew and urged cit­i­zens to adapt.

David said, “If there is a fight be­tween man and na­ture, you know na­ture will win.”

David al­so added, “If it is that every two years you are be­ing im­pact­ed by this lev­el of wa­ter and the wa­ter is en­ter­ing your home and it is de­stroy­ing your fab­ric fur­ni­ture—and many peo­ple have fab­ric fur­ni­ture; it’s the mod­ern way to have fur­ni­ture—but per­haps it’s time to adapt more and get dif­fer­ent fur­ni­ture.”

But yes­ter­day chair­man Allen Sam­my called on David to ex­plain to some 1,000 res­i­dents of the cor­po­ra­tion who have been af­fect­ed by flood­ing how they should adapt.

Sam­my said, “Let him tell them that in spite of the mil­lions of dol­lars spent in house­hold loss­es which they in­curred, for the third and fourth time, in some cas­es since 2017, that there is noth­ing he can do. Tell them that as a se­nior rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the State, ‘he drop he hand’, and that they will have to live with it.”

The cor­po­ra­tion chair­man added that af­ter Trop­i­cal Storm Brett in 2017, the Pe­nal/Debe area was af­fect­ed nine times by flood­ing which re­sult­ed in mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es to house­holds and farm­ers.

He said he pro­posed a six-point plan to ad­dress flood­ing in 2018 and noth­ing has been done.

Sam­my urged David to en­cour­age the gov­ern­ment to not hire an­oth­er for­eign con­sul­tant but in­stead look to re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions for so­lu­tions to the flood­ing woes.

UNC Oropouche West MP De­ven­dranath Tan­coo has al­so slammed David for his re­marks.