Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj
Uitkomst is a petite village in Canal Number One. In fact, it is so small that it is not well known to persons; some of the drivers of taxis who traverse the area do not even have a clue as to where it is.
A five-minute drive from the Bagotville junction should get you to Uitkomst, which is just three villages before the renowned Two Brothers Village. Uitkomst is obviously a Dutch word and it translates loosely to mean Salvation, Salvage, Godsend or Result, depending on where you do your research. Not many people live at Uitkomst, maybe just over 60 in number and most of them are related and those who aren’t related like family anyhow.
Ninety per cent of the villagers are Indian Guyanese while the remaining ten per cent are African Guyanese. When The World Beyond Georgetown visited,