Story and photos by Dhanash Ramroop
A 20 minutes’ drive from Georgetown along the East Coast of Demerara takes you to the former hidden paradise of Elizabeth Hall.
While the name Elizabeth Hall is foreign to the tongue and heads of the younger folks in the area, the older ones still recall when the area began as a bushy rice field that had no signs of life. Now, in present time, a drive through the area would show a vast scheme packed with a lot of tall, developed houses. That part of the area was sectioned off and renamed Melanie Damishana. But the entire surrounding area is still called Elizabeth Hall, according to the Gazetteer of Guyana.
But it wasn’t always like that, Ronald James, 67, who has lived in the area since its development told The World Beyond Georgetown