Helena Number 2

Patrick Bourne playing a game of dodgeball with his grandsons

Helena Number 2 is a village situated in Mahaica and close to the Mahaica River Bridge which separates it from another village called Wilhelmina. The village is situated east of the Mahaica River, north of Good Hope, south of Helena Number 1 and west of farmlands. Helena Number 2 is a sister village of Helena Number 1. The village’s approximately 200 houses provide shelter for some 1,400 residents.

The village, once a sugar plantation, saw its first settlers in the early 1900s, possibly the 1920s.

The village is seemingly bright since it is situated at one of the junctions in Mahaica. The highway runs through it as well. Yet as busy and bright and large as it is, everyone is familiar with everyone else.

When the World Beyond Georgetown arrived, people seemed