The Little Guyana strip of Queens, New York runs for about 25 vivid blocks, with the thriving storefronts a feast of wild colours, bustling with immigrants sporting a range of distinctive musical accents that mark their origins in faraway tropical villages with rather strange names ranging from Ankerville to Zeelugt.
One can find almost anything that comes from their southern native land of many waters – be it fun fairs and festivities, flashing finery, frosty snow cones, fresh snapper, trout, crabs, hassar, tropical greens and fruits, to the Golden Arrowhead, and glowing El Dorado/XM-rums with ice-cold I-Cee, consumed in a cheerful chutney culture of cricket, cuisine, company, colourful curses and card-games.
Dividing Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park, the commercial enclave is
