Forty-one kilometres from Supenaam on the Essequibo Coast is the village of Windsor Castle, home to approximately 650 residents, most of whom do rice farming while some do cattle rearing and fishing.
It was raining when I visited and there was a light drizzle, which was not so much to keep folks indoors. A group of men sat at the Sparta Cricket Ground in the village talking about the upcoming elections; there were three days to go before they headed to the Windsor Castle Health Centre to vote. However, this topic was dropped almost instantly when they realized a reporter was in their village and they began pointing out what their village needed, and specifically the cricket ground. I did not need them to point out the dilapidated community centre; its condition was the first thing I noticed. The field, which had been recently weeded, was another concern as the men wanted some work to be done on it and proper pavilions built for persons viewing the games.
