Port Kaituma bustles with taxis shuttling people to and from the small airport, a hyper-busy commercial centre crammed with pickup trucks, SUVs, cars and ATVs, and boats traversing the calm, brown Barima and Kaituma rivers.
Residents say it’s a mining town, serving as the commercial centre for large-scale mining outfits extracting gold and other minerals from the deep jungles of the hinterland.
Guyanese mix with Brazilians, Jamaicans and other foreigners, to
