By Michel Outridge

This week the Pepperpot Magazine visited the sleepy community of Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice, where the team met and chatted with residents, thus, highlighting their way of life.

The village is called Number 28 but the gazetted name is Trafalgar and it is bordered by Union and Number 27 villages.

It is home to mostly skilled contractors, masons, carpenters and other tradesmen, miners, cattle, rice, cash crops and poultry farmers.

Trafalgar is home to predominantly Afro-Guyanese with a handful of people of mixed race and some Indo-Guyanese.

A small percentage of people leave the village for work.

Trafalgar Village has a Nursery School, a Health Outpost, many shops, a large ball field, small businesses, churches and vast backlands

The village is an agricultural-based village where almost every yard has a kitchen full of fresh fruits and vegetables and livestock.

There are plenty of chickens in Trafalgar, many of which can be seen running around the streets.

Trafalgar Village is home to about 300 residents and it is a striving community where the villagers have some signature houses, the architectural landscape of this village is one to remember.

They have some very large houses with some beautiful designs.

The access road to Trafalgar was newly paved into an all-weather road before it was a mud dam and there are several streets.

The team first met Rayelene Edwards, who was at the time taking in some cool breeze at the side of the house with her children, having completed the household chores.

“I grew up in this village because my mother resides here and I am staying with her so most of my life I have lived here,” she said.

The 29-year-old added that the village is a very quiet place for good family life and the people are most welcoming and receptive.

Edwards said they have all the basic amenities but there is no landline service and a few months ago, the main access road was paved and that was good.

“It was a mud dam before and whenever it rains, it was a mess to get in and out of the village to the Main Road so I am pleased with the development,” she said.

The mother of two related that they would do their shopping at Rosignol or Bush Lot and described life in that village as fair.

Edwards reported that most people in the village have their chickens, goats, sheep, cows and farms and they make a living somehow.

She was awaiting the arrival of her mother, who had gone out to do some shopping and was spending some meaningful time with the children since, they cannot go out, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Edwards stated that Trafalgar is a nice place to live and the people are hardworking and mind their own business.

There is a Seventh Day Adventist Church in this village which is frequented by locals.

“Most people that live here, are from this village, there are hardly any strangers,” she said.