The World Beyond Georgetown

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser The little village of Somerset and Berks sandwiched between New Road and Evergreen is “peaceful and quiet” according to residents.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah At Gay Park, East Bank Berbice (EBB) the peace is only occasionally disturbed by vehicles passing through, honking their horns and slowing down to negotiate some of the potholes on the road.

Story by Dacia Whaul Photos by Arian Browne Sandwiched between Success on the west and La Bonne Intention on the east, is the close knit community of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara, comprising about 600 people, according to the estimate of one resident.

Mist swirls around the tops of the three hills of Rupertee and the cold breeze streaming from the nearby Pakaraima Mountains, makes a memory – at least for a while – of the heat that can sear the Rupununi savannahs.

Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Ruimzigt is a small village located a few miles from Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara between Windsor Forest and Wallers Delight.

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland If there is any place in Guyana that should be at the top of the list of places to live, it would be Annai.

By Dacia Whaul  with photos by Arian Browne “Zeeburg is the largest fishing community on the West Coast of Demerara,” boasted George, “and we have the best cricket team over here.”

In the quiet farming community of Philippi on the Corentyne, Bertely Matheson, 70, was relaxing in a hammock in her yard when The World Beyond Georgetown dropped in.

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser In the early years, according to residents, a white man named Daniel, who owned the sugar factory in the village of Sparta on the Essequibo coast, bought land in the area nearby, and the place was later called ‘Danielstown’.

Story by Tifaine Rutherford with photos by Arian Browne I bet that you have never heard of a road called ‘Carilla Street,’ unless, that is, you are from De Willem.

Stories and photos by Shabna Ullah Residents of Sandvoort, an agricultural village in West Canje, Berbice whose residents are close-knit, have been involved in self-help activities from the inception.

By Dacia Whaul with photos by Arian Browne There was no one out in the streets when Sunday Stabroek visited Anna Catherina recently.

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland   If you’re scared of leaping cows, don’t go into the corral.

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser Dartmouth, a well-populated community on the Essequibo coast situated between Westbury and Perth, is an African village that was bought by freed slaves following emancipation.

 Story by Jeanna Pearson with photos by Arian Browne   Approximately eight miles from Georgetown poverty-stricken Indian families are crammed into small dilapidated shacks along a dam near the banks of the Chateau Margot seawall.

Port Mourant, Corentyne, the home village of the late president of Guyana, Dr Cheddi Jagan as well as some outstanding cricketers, was described as the only village that offers education from “nursery to university.” 

Amidst endless cattle pastures and yellow rice fields, sits the small village of Fairfield in Mahaica. 

Story and photos by Keneisha Fraser “I came to live here in 1975 when I married.

Most people pass the scattered, thatched-roofed, mud-brick huts of Kumu without stopping and head directly to the white spray of the Kumu Falls to splash about in the cold waters roaring off the mountain.

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland There’s Egypt in the Land of Canaan.