Photos by Joanna Dhanraj
This village is the third of the same name that the World Beyond Georgetown has visited. Features have already been done on Good Hope, Essequibo Coast and Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo. Good Hope, East Coast Demerara is the largest of them. It began as rice fields, before it became a cow pasture then a cane field and eventually house lots were given out many years later. Today, some 10,000 people representing the country’s diverse ethnicities and religions reside here and are amply catered for by a mosque, temple and myriad churches.
The village is so vast it has three phases. Good Hope also has a huge burial ground and its crematorium within the cemetery is widely used by not only villagers, but persons from afar.
It has scores of mongooses, wily creatures that pop up and
