Stewartville, Guyana

Stewartville
Village
Stewartville is located in Guyana
Stewartville
Stewartville
Coordinates: 6°52′18″N 58°17′48″W / 6.871573°N 58.296572°W / 6.871573; -58.296572
Country Guyana
RegionEssequibo Islands-West Demerara
Population
 (2012)[1]
 • Total
2,808
Time zoneUTC−04:00

Stewartville is a village district in Guyana on the Atlantic coast of West Demerara, just east of the mouth of the Essequibo River. There are four sections in the village: Stewartville Housing Scheme, Sarah Lodge, Stewartville Old Road and Stewartville Sea View.[2]

Community

Stewartville is about 10 miles (16 km) west of Vreed en Hoop, and is separated from the neighbouring community of Leonora by a trench. The community of Uitvlugt is immediately to its west. The village is populated by various ethnic groups.[2]

Stewartville is named after the Stewart family who owned the plantation. John Stewart Jr. was the illegitimate son of John Stewart Sr.[3] In 1826,[4] John Steward Sr. died. In his will, he named John Steward Jr. as his natural son and awarded him the plantations of Stewartville and Annandale. John Stewart Jr. was probably of mixed race, and was elected Member of Parliament in 1832. Despite his background, he was a strong proponent of slavery.[3]

With the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1834, freedmen began making group and individual purchase of land in the village.[5] By the 1860s many Africans had settled in the Creole village of Stewartville and were working on the West Coast Demerara estates. There is a record of four Sierre Leonians in 1874 petitioning from Stewartville for a grant of crown land to cultivate rice on Hog Island, Essequibo.[6]

Later, estate workers originally from South India came to the coast and introduced their own traditions.[7] The Indians mostly settled in areas between the Afro-Guyanese villages.[8] A mosque was built in Stewartville around 1911.[9] At times, in the 1970s, there were violent clashes between the ethnic groups.[10] As of 2012 the village had a population of 2,808.[1]

Climate

Temperature is fairly steady throughout the year at between 25 °C (77 °F) and 27 °C (81 °F). There are two wet seasons in May–July and in December–January. Average monthly rainfall ranges from 104 millimetres (4.1 in) in September to 383 millimetres (15.1 in) in June, with about 2,670 millimetres (105 in) annually.[11]

Infrastructure

Stewartville has a secondary school, serving other communities in the region.[12] The Unserved Areas Electricity Programme brought electricity to the community in 2005-2006.[13] The school road at Stewartville was rehabilitated in 2009, but the job was done by an inexperienced contractor and was poor quality. In less than six months, potholes were starting to appear.[14] In August 2011 it was announced that funding was being provided to upgrade roads in the area, including regarding the roads, road sides and drains, with 32,000 people expected to benefit directly.[15] In February 2012 residents of Sarah Lodge were complaining that road works had started two months before and then stalled, and the unfinished construction was blocking the main road and causing serious flooding.[16]

Erosion of the shore has long been a problem. In 1918 it was reported that repairs to the sea wall were needed.[17] Excessively high tides on 16–17 October 2005 caused breaches of the sea defenses on West Coast Demerara. In November the government announced it had approved contracts for emergency repairs. $102M was to be spent on obtaining and laying boulders along the sea defense line at Stewartville and Leonora. The work was being funded from a 38.9 Euro grant agreement under the Eighth European Development Fund.[18] In December 2009 a high spring tide caused waves that over-topped the sea wall and flooded several yards in Stewartville Sea View. No drainage system had been installed since the 2006 flooding. The wall was damaged near to the point where the flooding occurred.[19]

In October 2010 the contractor working on a project to repair the sea defenses recommended using riprap construction as an alternative to building wave walls. With riprap construction, loose boulders absorb the force of the waves. Unlike wave walls, which tend to be undermined, crack and require expensive repair, riprap defenses need little maintenance. However, they are slightly more expensive to build.[20] In October 2011 it was announced that the EU-funded program to reconstruct or rehabilitate about 20 kilometres (12 mi) of sea defenses would not be completed by its month-end deadline. A new date of February 2012 was proposed. The contractor had run into difficulties that included design changes, heavy rains and delays in accessing duty-free materials.[21]

Other events

During the 2006 general elections the PPP/C held a "Grand Victory Rally" at Stewartville before the election was held. Speaking at the rally to an audience made up mostly of sugar workers and rice farmers, President Bharrat Jagdeo outlined a $500B development plan for the next five years.[22] The PPP/C held another massive rally at Stewartville in November 2011 during the Guyanese general election, 2011.[23] President Bharrat Jagdeo again spoke at the event.[24]

In October 2010 a boat carrying drinks and other products from the Banks DIH company to the Essequibo Coast developed leaks and had to be grounded on the Stewartville foreshore. Mud had got into the pump, which would not start, and the engine room flooded. After the tide receded, the boat leaned to one side. Some boxes fell off and were taken away by Stewartville residents.[25] That night, dozens of people climbed onto the boat, taking soft drinks and alcoholic drinks, as well as other products such as biscuits and bottled water. The looting was thorough, including draining the fuel from the boat's tanks. Some started drinking while they were looting. One man, apparently drunk, fell into the water and drowned between the boat and the sea wall.[26]

Notable people

Allan Carlyle Miller was born in Stewartville Village on 19 September 1898.[27] After training in the southern United States as a doctor and a Baptist minister, he returned to Guyana and established the Guyana Missionary Baptist Church Lott-Carey.[28] The well-known artist Donald Locke was born here in 1930.[29] Locke started to study painting under E. R. Burrowes in the Working People's Art Class in Georgetown in 1947. In 1979 he moved to the United States, dying in Atlanta Georgia in December 2010.[30] In 1973, Stewartville was home to Diana Amelia Barrow, who was 107 years old. She was the mother of six children, two of whom had died, and had 23 grandchildren.[31] Michael Joseph the Finance Secretary of Guyana as of 1 November 2018 to present was born and raised in Stewartville.

References

  1. ^ a b "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b "The World Beyond Georgetown: Stewartville". Stabroek News. August 28, 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  3. ^ a b "John Stewart". Legacies of British Slavery database. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ^ "STEWART, John II (?1755-1826), of 3D, The Albany, Piccadilly, Mdx". History of Parliament. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  5. ^ Lewis, Maureen Warner (2003). Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures. University of West Indies Press. p. 347. ISBN 978-976-640-118-4. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  6. ^ Moore, Brian L.; Higman, B. W.; Campbell, Carl; Patrick Bryan (2003). Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society. University of the West Indies Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-976-640-137-5. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  7. ^ Younger, Paul (2001-11-29). Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-19-514044-6. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  8. ^ Bisnauth, D. A. (2000). The settlement of Indians in Guyana, 1890-1930. Peepul Tree. p. 145. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  9. ^ M'Bow, Amadou Mahtar; Kettani, M. Ali (2001). Islam and Muslims in the American continent. Center of Historical, Economical and Social Studies. p. 406. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  10. ^ Lutchman, Harry; Mars, Perry; Addo, Herb (1976). Selected issues in Guyanese politics. Dept. of Political Science & Law, University of Guyana. p. 105. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  11. ^ "Stewartville, Guyana". Gaisma. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  12. ^ Imran Khan. "Vergenoegen". Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  13. ^ "Government's extended electrification programme – transforming 220 communities". GINA. February 12, 2006. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  14. ^ "Less than six months later…New Stewartville road deteriorates". Kaieteur News. November 25, 2009. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  15. ^ "12 roads in Cornelia Ida/Stewartville to be upgraded- under CRIP". GINA. August 19, 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  16. ^ "Abandoned road works result in damaged streets, flooding in Stewartville". Kaieteur News. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  17. ^ Guyana (1918). Administration Reports ... "The Argosy" Company, Limited. p. 17. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  18. ^ "Cabinet clears contracts for emergency sea defence work". GINA. November 3, 2005. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  19. ^ ALVA SOLOMON (January 1, 2010). "Spring tide harries West Dem". Stabroek News. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  20. ^ Kristen Macklingam (October 29, 2010). "BK Int'l touts alternative to wave wall sea defence". Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  21. ^ "EU funded sea defence programme cannot meet October-month-end deadline". Kaieteur News. October 3, 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  22. ^ "A unique result / Parties wrap up campaign -- PPP/C leads in closing rallies". Guyana.org. September 3, 2006. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  23. ^ "Thousands attend PPP/C Rally in Stewartville. Biggest Rally yet". PPPC. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  24. ^ MICHAEL YOUNGE (November 14, 2011). "Jagdeo urges lawmen to vote wisely". The Guyana Times. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  25. ^ GAULBERT SUTHERLAND (October 4, 2010). "Banks DIH boat beached at Stewartville shore after leaks". Stabroek News. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  26. ^ GAULBERT SUTHERLAND (October 5, 2010). "Fisherman drowns looting grounded boat". Stabroek News. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  27. ^ Fitts, Leroy (1985). A history of Black Baptists. Broadman Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-8054-6580-8. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  28. ^ "The Guyana Missionary Baptist Church – Lott Carey". Stabroek News. September 30, 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  29. ^ "Renowned Artist/Sculptor Donald Locke passes away". Kaieteur News. December 7, 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
  30. ^ "Guyanese Artist Donald Locke Dies in Georgia". Repeating Islands. December 13, 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  31. ^ Guyana Information Services (1973). News from Guyana; the co-operative republic. p. 5. Retrieved 2012-08-07.

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