Formerly rice fields, Lowland, Hope, on the East Coast Demerara, is home to hundreds of people, many of whom depend on fishing for their livelihood. The community has reportedly been in existence for 15 years now.
Lilia Haniff settled in Lowland some 14 years ago after leaving her home in Beehive. Years before, her parents and grandparents worked in the rice fields where she now lives.
“When me come in here, was just two or three house in me section, but in me street was just me alone went living here,” Haniff said. “It was very difficult to live here when I did just move because the road wasn’t perfect and then the same week I come in here and live is the same week the rain fall, and we get a big flood. It wasn’t the 2005 flood. I come in 2005, but later in the year in November. Here does get flood steady.
