Met-en-Meerzorg
Meten-Meer-Zorg
village
Met-en-Meerzorg is located in Guyana
Met-en-Meerzorg
Met-en-Meerzorg
Location in Guyana
Coordinates: 6°52′38″N 58°19′27″W / 6.87722°N 58.32417°W / 6.87722; -58.32417
Country Guyana
RegionEssequibo Islands-West Demerara
Population
 (2012)[1]
 • Total3,910
Time zoneUTC-4
ClimateAf

Met-en-Meerzorg (also Meten-Meer-Zorg) is a village located on the West Coast of Demerara in the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara in Guyana. The village was named after the sugar plantation Met en Meerzorg.[2]

The community was founded in 1871. The village consists of a housing estate and a squatted village.[3] The informal settlement was composed of fourroom houses constructed with walls made from zinc or wood. In 1997, there was no running water and there had been electricity since 1994.[4] As of 2015, a large scale housing project was started in the village.[5] The village has a health centre, a primary school, and a professional learning college.[3] Met-en-Meerzorg is home to the Guyana Heritage Museum which was founded in 1994.[3]

References

  1. ^ "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Emancipation Compensation and Slave Owners". Guyana Times International. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Meten-Meer-Zorg". Stabroek News. 25 December 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. ^ Peake, Linda (1997). "Declines and Revivals in Housing Policy in Guyana". In Potter, Robert B.; Conway, Dennis (eds.). Self-help Housing, the Poor, and the State in the Caribbean. University of Tennessee Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-87049-963-0.
  5. ^ "House lots to be developed at Meten-Meer-Zorg, Vigilance, Mon Repos". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 23 August 2020.


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