Port Mourant

Port Mourant is a village located in Region 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne), in Guyana. This agriculturally sustained village is famous for producing one of the country’s most influential and iconic political figures, Dr. Cheddi Jagan. Dr. Jagan and many of his contemporaries from Port Mourant who later excelled, were fortunate to attend the first and very successful secondary school established in the village by the academic – Pandit RN Persaud. This village has also produced a number of famous cricketers, for example, Rohan Kanhai, Basil Butcher, Joe Solomon, Alvin Kallicharran, Randolph Ramnarace, Ivan Madray and John Trim. In addition, one of the world famous attorneys Sir Lionel Luckhoo was born in Port Mourant. There are a number of families who have migrated from Port Mourant to the United States and Canada and have become very successful and outstanding citizens, such as the Mohans, Persauds, Narines, Tiwaris, Karims, Sharmas, Bahadurs, Singhs, Deepoos, Babolaals, Chesters, Drepauls, Deonarines, Etwarus, Mangrus, Awatars, Ramrattans, Burchells, Rostums, Khans, Alis, Kallicharrans, Kanhais, Mohammeds, and Ramtejs, and the list goes on and on.

At latitude 6.2500 longitude – 57.3333, Port Mourant stands on average about three feet above sea level. To the west of its border is located Guyana’s smallest town, Rose Hall, and to the east lies Bloomfield. To the north and south the village is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and sugar cane fields respectively. It is a very large village made up of about 15 settlements including Free Yard, Bound Yard, Portuguese Quarter, Bangladesh, Ankerville, Clifton, Tain, Miss Phoebe and John’s, and it is nestled between Guyana’s smallest town of Rose Hall to the west and Bloomfield Village to the east. Bound Yard got its name from the indentured labourers who lived there. After they had served their contracts they moved to another location, suitably called Free Yard.

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