Central Amelia’s Ward

Children in the area

Central Amelia’s Ward is a quiet village in Linden. It is well laid out because it was built as a housing community and was never subject to squatting. A few persons had gathered together chatting, a couple of men were fixing a truck and others had congregated in front of a wash bay looking on. Some younger men played football in the street, while a few girls observed. A police patrol rolled by on an ATV, yet the village had a strange quiet.

At the head of the village, standing on one of the streets running parallel to the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, one would notice the road leads down a slope. Barely a quarter of the way down, I caught up with Elize Kingston who was cutting up vegetables to prepare lunch.