On a Monday morning early 83-year-old Iris Mangru heads over to her fruit orchard, something she has been doing for as long as she can remember even though she knows that there is not much she can do there these days.
“I just come over to see wah me could do,” Mangru said as she came out to greet this reporter.
Having just recovered from a serious bout of influenza Mangru was eager to make a trip to the orchard which is opposite her Canefield, Canje, Berbice home.
“Me pickney, a was suh sick dat a say one day to meself is one of two things ‒ a dead or a better feel