By Michel Outridge
Clifton Alberts is a resident of Naamless Village. He was doing some carpentry work but took the time off to engage the team in a chat.

The 71-year-old said he is originally from Linden, but came to the city and used to stay in Kitty where he met a young woman and over time they developed a relationship, causing him to relocate to Naamless Village.

“I used to work in the interior, but after dengue fever and malaria became prevalent I left mining work and came to the city to look for other work and met my wife,” he said.

He has been a resident of Naamless for the past 30 years and has his own cottage on a plot of land which has another wooden cottage that is occupied by his daughter and her family.

The father of six added that these days he is unable to do strenuous work because of high blood pressure but whenever he gets a ‘day work’ with farmers he would take it, because it brings in an income to his home.

Alberts said that apart from a few challenges, life is good and he has managed to adjust to living in such a distant place.

Meanwhile, the Pepperpot Magazine also met Alberts’ daughter, Amena Alberts and her husband, Leroy Goddett.

They reside in a neat little cottage in front of her father’s place which has a lot of plants and trees.

Goddett told the team he is a block-maker and was not at work that day, but he also does other jobs when the need arises.

He is originally from the Essequibo Coast and has settled in Naamless after his union with Amena.

The couple has a son who is one year and 11 months old and they describe life in Naamless as good.

The team encountered another resident, Charlotte Kippins, a friendly woman who has a shop and accommodates village meetings at her residence, since there is enough space for that.

Although she is from Bartica, she has been a resident of Naamless Village for the past 33 years.

Kippins explained that it was marriage that brought her to the community which is now home to her and she is well settled.

She stated that she takes care of the business side of things, that is, running a shop and her spouse, a sensible man, is a farmer and he tends to the crops on the farm lands they have.

With five children, her days are ‘not a walk in the park,’ but she manages to send off the children to school after which she does the chores and still has the time to operate their small business, a village shop.

Kippins told the Pepperpot Magazine that from the time she moved to Naamless Village to now, she has seen some development within the community and is very pleased that a new road will be paved next week.

In addition, she spoke of having potable water potable, thanks to Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) and by extension the administration for its intervention in making it possible for them to benefit from such a service after many years of hardship.

“We want a proper road that will last, not a biscuit road that will break away and erode when the tide is high, because a lot of heavy-duty vehicles traverse the community since it is agriculture-based and people have their small businesses as well,” she said.

The Kippins’ farm produces plantains, bananas, and sweet potatoes on a large scale and these are sold at the Parika market to wholesalers.

“Whatever development we get we are thankful[for], because it is better than none at all,” she said.