“Mahaicony is more of a family place and everybody living here either related or would look out for each other,” said Claudia Braithwaite, who vends at the once busy Farm/Zeskenderen junction in Central Mahaicony.
Braithwaite considers herself an ‘outsider’ since unlike most residents of Mahaicony, she has only been living in the East Coast Demerara area for about 5 years, although she said that despite the short time she and her family have been settled in the area, she could make a number of observations about the communities there.
She refers to the area as ‘country,’ and noted that “when people come and live here it takes a while to settle in, especially if you didn’t born and grow here.” Nevertheless, she said, the people of Central Mahaicony “are some of the best you could meet anywhere in Guyana.”
As she sat on her stand within the market square where she sells clothes, processed
