Community-based projects are much needed in Loo Creek

By Michel Outridge

DEONARINE

Chairman

Narine

is the of the Loo Creek

Community

Development Council (CDC) and related that fostering community-based projects is slow.

He told the Pepperpot Magazine that life in Loo dren and a school bus is needed for school transportation because the distance they have to go commute is a tall task and they are often left stranded for many hours in harsh conditions.

Narine has a wooden cottage-style house which was broken into in 2021, and his the locals face, they remain united and co-operative and assist each other in many ways to ease the burdens of daily hustle.

Loo Creek Village is a place with people of all races and they live in peace and harmony without any tensions and burning issues that

Narine reported that there are no strangers in the village centre, playground and other basic facilities for the locals.

The farmer stated that his wife passed away 12 years ago, and he misses the fresh cow’s milk of riverine ranch life where his father has many cows, and they have been farming and rearing cows all his life.

Narine said they plant and sold ground provisions, via boat to Linden with their produce as often as needed to make a living.

“Being a farmer and living in a riverine community is nothing flamboyant instead it is a life of hard work but it is a sure dollar and farming is their way of life for generations.”

Narine told the Pepperpot Magazine that Loo Creek is about the village is the serenity it brings and there is enough space to farm and live a quiet life away from a populated village.

Loo Creek is between Karuni and Dora villages and it is a quaint place which is very large in size with residents scattered on its vast land mass surrounded by the forest and

Scenes of different sections of Loo Creek Village, Soesdyke/Linden Highway (Delano Williams photos) because new people don’t move in there and apart from the Seventh Day Adventist -

All the CDC members are from the village and they would like inclusivity on community-based projects for skills training, resource cows, and cow’s milk for a living and they would travel slowly becoming his home and the most appealing thing lots of wild animals including, many species of birds.