This week, the Pepperpot Magazine took a boat across the mighty Essequibo River to bring you stories from Bartica. Stories and photos by Vishani Ragobeer and Telesha Ramnarine. BARTICA

BY the end of 2019, a spanking new Bartica Stelling, to be expanded more than 120 feet in length, will be in place to serve residents there and the

A NUMBER of developmental works are ongoing on the Bartica Community Centre Ground, a facility that “tremendously” affects the lives of young people in the town. Works were started

WITH about 90 per cent of Bartica’s population depending on the mining sector, Mayor Gifford Marshall feels that some residents have lost sight of the importance of education, as

– Take it from 100-year-old Ethal Moseley ETHAL Moseley is now 100 years old. She is well-known as Lucille or ‘Aunty Lu’ and was born on January 19, 1919,

THE brand new 3.3 megawatt power plant being built in Bartica by the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL), at a whopping $700M cost, should be up and running

Over $1B in government projects injected there BARTICANS feel especially privileged to live in this part of the country. Perhaps it is because they are shielded from many of

THIS year’s Bartica Regatta is going to be nothing short of fantastic, with organisers promising an event that will be “immaculately planned and organised.” Secretary for the ‘Regatta Committee’