Women in Business…Edith Adams: A courageous Moruka businesswoman

A camera-shy Edith Adams is concealed beneath this umbrella in her Moruka-bound boat.

Every fortnight, on Sunday, Edith Adams departs Moruka in a small boat powered by a 15 horse-power engine for a trip to Charity that takes up to nine hours.

The boat is laden with cassava bread and casareep which she sells at the Cinderella County’s famous Monday Market. It is a risky journey during which the small craft must encounter the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean;

but Edith has grown used to the risk. It forms part of a tough and demanding enterprise in