Edinburgh village

Heeralall Sasenarine displaying a tyre that was damaged by the deplorable road

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah

Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice is located five miles from New Amsterdam but the time and effort to manoeuvre around huge potholes to get there makes the distance seem much longer.

With a mixed population of almost 2,000, Edinburgh is divided into two sections; one is known as the ‘village’ and the other which was surveyed in 1953, is referred to as ‘the scheme.’ On the opposite side is the New Glasgow Housing Scheme