What is striking about the mixed community of Kortberaad, East Bank Berbice (EBB) is the hard work residents are engaged in for survival and their pride in keeping their surroundings spic and span. It was noticeable too that almost every yard has a kitchen or flower garden and that residents rear poultry or other livestock.

Taking its name from a Dutch eighteenth-century plantation, the farming community of Kortberaad is found just seven miles from New Amsterdam, although it seemed more remote than the …..