Community-based projects are much needed in Loo Creek
CDC Chairman of Loo Creek, Deonarine Narine at his bearing lime tree
CDC Chairman of Loo Creek, Deonarine Narine at his bearing lime tree

DEONARINE Narine is the Chairman of the Loo Creek Community Development Council (CDC) and related that fostering community-based projects is slow.

He told the Pepperpot Magazine that life in Loo Creek is quiet and very simple, and the people earn by farming, rearing poultry, logging, and baking wood to make charcoal for sale to wholesalers and retailers.

Narine added that there is great need for potable water supply, electricity and internet due to the village’s increasing population.

He explained that the village has many school children and a school bus is needed for school transportation because the distance they have to go commute is a tall task and they are often left stranded for many hours in harsh conditions.

Narine has a wooden cottage-style house which was broken into in 2021, and his chainsaw was removed by persons unknown, but the village itself is not a high-crime community.

The CDC Chairman added that they haven’t had any violent crimes, but they do have some men who would drink way above their limit and fall down on some pine trees and a few quarrels but nothing serious.

Despite many hardships the locals face, they remain united and co-operative and assist each other in many ways to ease the burdens of daily hustle.

Loo Creek Village is a place with people of all races and they live in peace and harmony without any tensions and burning issues that cannot be resolved.

Narine reported that there are no strangers in the village because new people don’t move in there and apart from the Seventh Day Adventist Church members, most people are related via kinship.

All the CDC members are from the village and they would like inclusivity on community-based projects for skills training, resource centre, playground and other basic facilities for the locals.

The farmer stated that his wife passed away 12 years ago, and he misses the fresh cow’s milk of riverine ranch life where his father has many cows, and they have been farming and rearing cows all his life.

Narine said they plant and sold ground provisions, cows, and cow’s milk for a living and they would travel via boat to Linden with their produce as often as needed to make a living.

“Being a farmer and living in a riverine community is nothing flamboyant instead it is a life of hard work but it is a sure dollar and farming is their way of life for generations.”

Narine told the Pepperpot Magazine that Loo Creek is slowly becoming his home and the most appealing thing about the village is the serenity it brings and there is enough space to farm and live a quiet life away from a populated village.

Loo Creek is between Karuni and Dora villages and it is a quaint place which is very large in size with residents scattered on its vast land mass surrounded by the forest and lots of wild animals including, many species of birds.

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