TOWN Clerk, Royston King has written to City Engineer Colvern Venture on the issue of establishing a disaster preparedness plan for the city in case of emergencies.  “I have put in place a team of officers to meet and to do an initial plan and that plan must be taken to the City Works Committee for further development and formulation and then to the Council,” King told the Chronicle on Monday at City Hall.

Noting that natural disasters occur without warning on many occasions, King said it is important to be prepared by having such a plan in place. “So the engineer has correspondence from me asking him to meet with the team this week and to look at that. We need to prepare for it.”

Just last week, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green questioned the city’s preparedness for a flash flood and called on councillors to meet and advise on the way forward. “While we sympathise with our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean, I hope you are reading and following reports that there may very well be a flash flood coming to Guyana sometime after the hurricane,” Chase-Green said.

“I would like to find out if there are any preparations; is there a committee set up? We are right on the water front. Our Stabroek Market is at a great disadvantage. I hope that the administration along with the councillors responsible for that particular committee that deals with that could sit and advise somehow or the other their preparedness for such an event,” she added.