With just over 250 residents, Sisters stands as the most populated village on the Upper East Bank of Berbice. The village, which has two churches, a masjid, a police station, a post office and several shops is well known for its diversity and rich vegetation.
Mahase Outar, 59, cattle farmer and part-time watchman, who has lived in Sisters for over 30 years, said the village was packed with people of different races. “But we don’t get one problem. This village does live like family, it get one and two people who wayward, but most people does live okay,” he said.
“Back in the days things were very cheap. People was very good them time that, now we find am hard. We get good road now. We get lights but wah we say with food stuff concern it was very cheap back then. Me save me cow, save me cow and now we got to sell them to get money.”