By Michel Outridge

Dervin Rogers is a resident of Trafalgar Village, West Coast Berbice, and when the team met him he was in the process of fetching in some dirt from in front of his neighbour’s yard.

He told the Pepperpot Magazine that he is a miner, who is home for the time until he is ready to head back in the interior for work.

“Things not nice nowhere right now, with the coronavirus, most places not working so I came home to relax for a bit and when I get some work within the village I do it,” he said.

Rogers said he has been living in Trafalgar Village for the past five years and is originally from Hopetown Village, which is a few villages away, also on the West Coast Berbice corridor.

Although he is a skilled worker, he prefers to work in the hinterland and is hopeful he will be able to find work in the village since it is home to a few contractors.

Meanwhile, the team also spoke with his neighbour, Melana Webster, a mom of five, who was at the time at her mother’s place, visiting.

“I live at Number 30 Village but I am staying with my mom for now, with this virus and all, we are all staying in and trying to cope, so I am watching television with the children,” she said.

Webster is married to a dentist and the curfew is no bother to her since she is often at home and only when it is the weekend or a holiday she would take the children out.

“I like it here and I don’t intend to move,” she said.

She is the mother of four boys and a girl, all of whom were engrossed in a cartoon that was on the television at the time

Webster stated that she has two siblings, who reside at the same house but they were out and she was home with the children.

The Pepperpot Magazine also met Yvonne Stanley, who had just returned home after getting a canter truck to offload some dirt in front of her house.

She added that the yard is low and when it rains the place is flooded and she wants to avoid that so she is getting dirt to fill up the back yard.

The single parent stated that she has been living in Trafalgar for the past five years and has a very cosy flat-concrete house.

In her yard, she has a small business, she sells clothes, of which she would buy and send back to Guyana when she goes overseas.

“Right now I have nothing to sell because of the coronavirus I can’t clear my barrels so things at a standstill but I have other things to do,” she said.

Stanley related that the place was swampy and she constructed her house and it trying to build-up the land because it is low and water accumulates quickly when it rains.

“I am getting some help from friends, I get the dirt free and I get to bring it here so I just have to pay to get the guy to bring it in the yard,” she explained.

She described life in the village as good and with that she was off again, to get more dirt.