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Met-en-Meerzorg (also Meten-Meer-Zorg) is a village located on the West Coast of Demerara in the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara in Guyana. The village was named after the sugar plantation Met en Meerzorg. [2] The community was founded in 1871. The village consists of a housing estate and a squatted village. [3]
Belladrum is a rural area close to the sea wall on the northern coast of Guyana. It is below sea level and is rich with lush vegetation, rice fields, and wildlife. Due to frequent seasonal flooding, it is particularly good for growing rice.
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In the early 21st century, the Tuschen Housing Scheme was developed to transform the abandoned sugar estates into housing. [3] Phase one centred around the original village, and phase two extends from the public road to the savannah. [4] The village has a primary and secondary school, health centre, many shops and businesses. [4]
East Berbice-Corentyne (Region 6) is one of ten regions in Guyana covering the whole of the east of the country. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Nickerie District and Sipaliwini District of Suriname to the east, Brazil to the south and the regions of Mahaica-Berbice, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Potaro-Siparuni and Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo to the west.
Sophia is a ward of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.It's a predominantly Afro-Guyanese community, [2] and one of Georgetown's poorest neighborhoods. [3]Sophia was where Forbes Burnham presented "Declaration of Sophia" at a People's National Congress meet in December 1974. [4]
Squatting in Guyana is the occupation of unused land or derelict buildings without the permission of the owner. Squatting has been used as a means to find housing by people displaced by conflict in the 1960s and by internal migrants from the 1980s onwards.
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