Good Hope is a tiny village on the East Bank Essequibo pressed between Greenwich Park and Ruby. It has approximately 200 residents.
The village is some 30 to 45 minutes from Vreed-en-Hoop depending on the traffic and ten minutes from Parika.
On approach, the village appears serene like any other around Guyana, but its people are still devastated by the deaths of Mohamed and Jamilla Munir who were burnt alive after their house was broken into and then set alight by bandits. But though fearful and angry, villagers are trying to carry on with their daily lives.
At the time the World Beyond Georgetown visited, road works were in full swing. Workers were setting up plastic road blocks to prevent vehicles from using the parts of the road being worked on.
At the koker separating Good Hope from Ruby, moored boats rocked on the
