Photos by Arian Browne
Unlike other rural villages where most people are engaged in farming, residents of the East Bank community of New Hope rarely farm and none of them has taken it up as a full-time occupation, people living in the area said.
New Hope is situated along the East Bank of Demerara. It is quite community oriented, although residents said that its tranquillity results in boredom.
Most people in the village are either taxi-drivers, plumbers or other skilled personnel, or small business owners. It is a village with
