Many people do not get to watch a community grow up. Edgar Beard, who does not know his true age but is pretty sure that he is over 63 years old, however, was able to watch as the Amerindian community of Campbelltown was transformed from a community of five families to well over 300 persons today.
Like many others who have now become residents of this Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) community, Beard came to the area to work in the surrounding goldfields. He was raised in the Pomeroon and came to work with the gold-mining company, British Guiana Consolidated Goldfields (BGCG) which had operations in the area, he related.
Beard was a curious youth and wandered about the place and was pleased with what he saw. “I like the place and so I decided to stay,” he recounted to
