Slightly bent over, her glasses perched precariously on her wizened face, Sukdiah Mohabir hurried down a street in the village of Canefield, Canje, Berbice on a sunny morning impatient to match the strides of the younger woman holding her hand.
She showed no sign of her 104 years and if it was not for her hand being gripped she might have run into the yard to meet the visitor waiting for her, as she was in a hurry and did not want miss the funeral of a villager.
“Ow beti wah me guh tell you? A living but a getting old now,” were the words she greeted this reporter with followed by a hug.
Better known as Aunty Powah, Mohabir is a direct descendant of indentured workers but she has no