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Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

An­gry res­i­dents of Pe­nal protest­ed on Fri­day, ac­cus­ing a pen­sion­er of self­ish­ly di­vert­ing a ma­jor riv­er and putting their homes at risk of flood­ing.

The demon­stra­tors con­front­ed Ajod­ha Pooran, who ad­mit­ted spend­ing $150,000 to al­ter the course of the Black Wa­ter Chan­nel, a trib­u­tary of the South Oropouche Riv­er, to stop ero­sion near his prop­er­ty. How­ev­er, res­i­dents ar­gued that his ac­tions could wors­en flood­ing in the sur­round­ing ar­eas.