“Everybody is a hustler here,” is how Shakira Khan who vends at the busy Pomeroon River port of Charity in Region Two describes the area which is ideally poised to become Guyana’s newest town. The port is considered the gateway to the Essequibo Coast, and on any given morning, a large number of persons converge there to transact business.

Khan, who has been vending finger foods and beverages close to the Charity wharf for a number of years told Stabroek News during a recent visit that the area has been thriving “ever since I know this place.” She said that at the break of dawn, office workers, boatmen, vendors and travellers are among the first group of people to be seen, and as the morning “settles” the area would be transformed into a “busy scene,” as shoppers congregate at the market, …..