A Simple way of life 
Parbattie Persaud
Parbattie Persaud

 By Michel Outridge

PARBATTIE Persaud is the Clinic Attendant at Vive-La-Force Health Post and is from Sister’s Village.

She has been at the location for the past five years and makes the journey every Monday to Friday because she likes her job and serving people is her ‘thing.’

“I like my job because I feel good helping people and when they come here I try to assist them in whatever way I can,” she said.

Persaud would make herself useful by tidying up the clinic area and assisting with blood pressure and diabetes-testing during busy clinic days.

Road to Vive-La-Force village

“This job is rewarding and I assist in the areas needed and we work well here, because we help each other to maintain good patient care,” she said.

Persaud is of the view that if one maintains good relations with patients they will return for the service; and it takes nothing out of you to be nice and cordial with people.

She related that they would try to establish one-on-one talk with patients to assist them to better manage their health and medications etc.

Persaud stated that the people of Vive-La-Force is very friendly and one thing she admires about the folk there is, the children are very mannerly and well-behaved and they are very serious about preserving their surroundings by keeping it clean.

“This village has managed to maintain its good morals and old-fashioned way of life, because they are not very exposed to the ‘outside’ influence,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Pepperpot Magazine spoke with a retired teacher, Aunty Rosy, one of the village’s oldest residents. She is enjoying her golden years, at her home, a few doors away from the Vive-La-Force Primary School.

Aunty Rosy is advocating for a playground for the children and youths to be engaged in recreational activities and for officials to visit and have talks with the youths and schoolchildren to make a lasting impression on them.

The Pepperpot Magazine also spoke to Hubert Ramlall, a cash crop farmer, who was on his bicycle home from his farm which is located aback Vive-La-Force village.
Ramlall, 70, lives in a nearby village and has his farm in the backlands of Vive-La-Force.

Hubert Ramlall on his way home from his farm (Carl Croker photos)

He has crops of cassava, plantains, eddoes and corn, which he sells within his village and surrounding communities.

He stated that it is easy to go on his bicycle because of the distance and had completed spraying some pesticide on the dam he uses to get to his farm which was overrun by bushes.

The 70-year-old disclosed that he is planting on a quarter acre of land to earn to assist him in paying his bills and had finished working on his farm early that day because he was ‘going out.’

“I have to do something to earn because I can’t just sit and there is plenty of land here and why not use it,” he said.

Ramlall said the road runs for about five miles from the road-front way down to the backlands to other villages and the backlands are even larger, stretching for about seven miles, way down to the conservancy.

He stated that the lands are owned by Guysuco and NICIL and are utilised by farmers.

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