MORUKA District, a sub-region of Region One (Barima/Waini) is not a place where time has forgotten, as the PPP/C government continues to serve this area again, where they left off in 1964. The 12- odd communities with a population exceeding 15,000 enjoy their fair share of the national budget.
The administration centre is Coomaka, where there is a police station, hospital, airstrip, sub-office of the region and all other social amenities consistent with a small township. A daily transportation service by speedboats to charity reduces the traditional two hours or deal of the past.
This community is serviced from Charity, be it bread, cement, rice and building materials. The Regional Chairman of Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) Ali Baksh also paid regular visits to this sub-region and gives full support for the smooth running of this remote district.
The administrative building has been upgraded, a 13-mile new road links the Warimuri mission to Coomaka where a daily bus service transports school children to the secondary school at Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa, is a Roman Catholic Mission identified since 1850. It has a convent and was the main in-transit point for the gold bearing area of the N.W.D. The Air- strip is complimentary to tourism, as well as the stopping point between Ogle and Matthews Ridge or Mabaruma.
Outlying Schools of Hymara Cabra and Warimuri are upgraded schools and do have the amenities, of solar power, health outpost, and Radio and Communication.
The 28-mile uphill road built by the PPP/C government in the late 1959, has been upgraded and is fully used by farmers, miners, loggers and regional officials.
This road links the Moruka Fist to Quebana Community located 103 miles up the right bank of the Waini River.
The vision of the PPP/C government which built this road was to remove farmers from the flooded savannahs similar to Wauona-Yarakeeta Scheme in the Hosororo area in the North West District (NWD) where farmers from the lowering areas of the Aruka River were relocated.
However, within the realm of the concept of when civilisation steps in, fish and wildlife move out, the only traditions that stepped out are the wood-skin paddle boats replaced by small out board engines, Troolie-leaf covered houses replaced by zincs, little lamps, by handy generators, casserie having competition from banks beer,
Suicide which was taboo in Amerindian Communities is now raising its ugly head. A former Minister of Amerindian Affairs cannot see development or even recognise the presence of a historical precedence, where 36 Amerindians are now in Cuban universities. This community is a massive leap into the future.