A Plastic City Christmas

Children playing with their dolls at their Plastic City home.

As she turns four today, Varshanie Ramdass will finally hold the doll placed out of her reach on a wooden shelf in her Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara home.

“Uncle, uncle, look I getting de dolly,” she said a few days ago bouncing up and down, pointing to the simple doll, barely able to contain her excitement. Her father, Krishna Ramdass, sitting in the one-room,