Story and photos by Jannelle Williams
If you blink when travelling by car along the Corentyne Highway, you will most likely miss Lewis Manor. To say the village is tiny would be overstating its size. Developed in the 1800s after slavery was abolished, Lewis Manor (which is also referred to as Number 9 Village) has some 13 houses on the southern side and only one house on the northern side. The only other building is the Police Outpost which is at the end of the village. The village is between Number 7 and Number 11 villages.
The village’s oldest resident, 88-year-old Sheechoria Sookhoo is a direct descendant of one of Lewis Manor’s founding families. Sookhoo has lived his entire
