North Section

Wales Estate truck drops workers home

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj

 

One of the cars parked at Stanleytown junction, once full, takes off to its destination. It really did take off; the wind slapped me in the face as the car sped at 100 kph. It was a smooth ride for three quarters of the way when we hit the pot holes and really rough parts of the road. Soon I saw the sign for North Section, Canal Number Two Polder.

The houses that line one side of the public road run until they reach the calm black waters of the Canal Number Two conservancy. The population is approximately 1,000. North Section once housed two coffee mills where the farmers who planted coffee took it once dried,