Eccles is a thriving community just beyond old Georgetown. It has been around for more than 70 years, with its business growth beginning some 30 years ago. Eccles has two gas stations, supermarkets, liquor restaurants, auto sales, and a few fisheries including Noble House Sea Foods at the back, Demerara Oxygen Company, now part of the Massy Group of Companies and a number of other businesses.
The Old Road through the scheme it was said, was once the public road until the building of the East Bank Demerara Highway from what used to be all cane fields.
During my visit it was raining in torrents. One man took shelter under the newly built overpass and others at a liquor restaurant called ‘The Flat Shop’ where I ended up also. The proprietor is Chandra Katwaroo.
