IN the good year of 2000, I had an audience with Mr. Walter Wills, the Government engineer in the office of the former Minister of Public Works, Anthony Xavier, who was also present in the hearing of my outlined proposals, which were for us to re-introduce the construction of inter-locked, compressed concrete plates revetment and land reclamation alongside distressed sea and riverine/riparian areas in Guyana. This is in addition to all drainages in and around Georgetown.
I had forewarned of consequences of flooding in Region Five, (the Abary/Mahaica-Berbice areas) because the right hand side of the tributary (mouth) of the Abary Creek was blocked up with sea/foreshore bed brown sand.
I also met with Mr. George Howard, (Chief Sea and River Defence Officer) and his subordinate, Mr. Mahadeo Persaud, respectively at their Kingston-based office relative to the above matter.
As a Dutch trained, qualified and oriented Hydrological-Engineer in such a capacity (Hydro-concrete, water and civil engineering), my complaints and advices were resented and ignored, by the PPP Government in Guyana.

As a consequence, not long after I had returned home here in the Netherlands, my native Guyana was under siege by flood water, in 2005, especially in Region Five, of which I had foreseen and forewarned of such graved danger.

While Guyana was under the siege of unprecedented flood water, the statement “this Government was forewarned, prior to 2005 flooding, by a Guyanese Dutch-born Hydrological-Engineer” was debated in Parliament by respective Parliamentarians, in particular the honourable David Patterson (now Minister of Public Infrastructure) whom I have had very close consultations with on such a matter. Refer to many relevant newspaper articles in the Guyana’s media (SN, KN and GC) and “acknowledgement letters” of 09-05-2000 and 18-08-2004 from the then Office of the President.
Today, I am still endeavouring to pursue this course of action and I persist with such similar warnings to our respective and relevant Guyanese officials, outlining and claiming that it is and would be very dangerous and hazardous to once again venture in the dumping of garbage-waste disposal in open atmospheric air at another site adjacent to residential and populated areas (such as the Haags Bosch new dumping site).
I am once again proposing that we harness and allocate a portion of the water front land at Grove Village, on the East Bank of Demerara, with the aim of constructing inter sections with inter-locked, heavy compressed concrete piling and plates revetment in the event of re-cycling all garbage-waste disposals.
I am not an English-oriented intellectual to constantly be writing English texts and project plans, as I was born Dutch in Guyana and my second language (English) expression has been suppressed for more than 30 years.
I am much more technically skilled with an innate knowledge to embark and to venture on sustainable development in the fields of sea/river defences and garbage-waste disposals, where revenues of such can beneficially and immensely be earned. I hope that our relevant and newly appointed Guyanese officials in the APNU-AFC would summon and grant me an audience in the event of eliminating sea/river defence breaches, assisting in combating the flood crisis and to innovate modern technologies in the event of sustainable usages of garbage-waste disposals in this modern 21st century day and in the days of our civilised world.
Thus, I propose for us to set-up a “concrete-based” factory in the advent for manufacturing pre-fabricating heavily compressed concrete products, such as pilings and plates/slabs for revetment and land reclamation, and for Georgetown internal drainages, drainage gutter-liners for internal drainage, solid blocks, tubes for shallow wells, tiles (2-sq. m. x 15-cm), beams, culverts, ‘L’-shape road edges, etc.
The Demerara River can be dredged and de-silted, revetment can be installed alongside its channels and water front land can be made available from Timehri’s dock on the East Bank Demerara to Kingston, where it is feasible and accessible. Georgetown can be raised up to 1-meter from its current geographical/hydrological elevation.
If modality be reached between my Caribbean Outlook Foundation, Inc. (Guyana affiliates) and this newly elected APNU-AFC coalition Government, nothing will come short for pitching my venture in Guyana as early as April, 2016.
I will be so proud to return and to serve my country of origin, my beautiful Guyana, under this newly elected Government.

REV. SURUJLALL MOTILALL
(Retired Hydrological Engineer from the Netherlands)