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'''Jonestown''' is a village in the ] region of ]. The old name of the village was '''Voorzigtigheid'''.<ref name="stabroek">{{cite web|url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2018/02/11/sunday/beyond-gt/jonestown/ |title=Jonestown|website=Stabroek News|access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref> The village is located 37.5 kilometres (24 miles) from ] between Hand-en-Veldt and the Atlantic Ocean,<ref name="stabroek"/> and near the town of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2019/04/05/news/guyana/jonestown-residents-seek-update-on-lima-bridge-works/|title=Jonestown residents seek update on Lima bridge works|website=Stabroek News|access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref> Therefore, it tends to be called "Jonestown, Mahaica" or "Jonestown, Mahaica, ECD", even today, although by current Guyanese administrative regions it is in ].


], the ]ian writer and folklorist (a druggist, by profession), was born in Jonestown in 1848.<ref name=Pierre>Pierre, p.xv</ref>
], is a small village in ]. It stands on Guyana's low coastal plain, whereon the county's population and agriculture are concentrated, at a place roughly 30 km southeasterly from ] and near the lower reaches of the ]. This is within the historical bounds of ], one of the original, smaller colonies that were joined to become ], which became Guyana on gaining its independence. More narrowly, traditional geographic terms put Jonestown in the Mahaica district of (the) East Coast (of) Demerara (ECD, for short, in either case meaning that part of Demerara east of the ] and facing the ocean). Thus even today the village tends to be called "Jonestown, Mahaica" or "Jonestown, Mahaica, ECD", although by current Guyanese administrative regions it is in ].


Jonestown, together with nearby areas along the lower courses of the Mahaica and other rivers of northeastern Guyana, has suffered from flooding during the wet season in the early years of the 21st century.
Jonestown has existed since the ], at the latest. Probably it was one of the many country villages that grew up in British Guiana in the wake of the step-wise freeing of the slaves there, between ] (when the slavery was abolished throughout the ]) and ] (when the transitional "apprenticeship" period of obligatory but paid servitude ended), as part of the resulting breakdown in the the plantation economy and its patterns of settlement and livelihood.


This Jonestown is not to be confused with the ] of the 1978 mass murder-and-suicide by members of the ]. Although that short-lived Jonestown was also in Guyana, it was in a different part of the country. The two places share their name by happenstance and have no other ties.
], the ] writer and folklorist (and druggist, by profession), was born in Jonestown in ].


== Notes ==
Jonestown has suffered from flooding in recent years, together with nearby areas along the lower courses of the Mahaica and other rivers of northeastern Guyana.
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== References ==
This Jonestown must not to be confused with the ] where the mass murder-and-suicide by members of the ] cult occurred in ]. It has no links with that erstwhile cult, whose communal settlement was in an altogether different part of Guyana. The sharing of a name by the two places is pure happenstance. Moreover, the one in Demerara can fairly be called Guyana's ''true'' Jonestown, given its long and on-going existence under that name, and notwithstanding that it is as little-known as the short-lasting cult settlement of the same name is notorious.

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* {{cite book
| last = Pierre
| first = Barry V.
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| title = Verbum Sap: A Tribute to L.O. Inniss
| publisher = (self-published)
| year = 2000
| location = Port-of-Spain
| pages =
| url =
| doi =
| isbn = 1-86033-509-8 }}

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Latest revision as of 19:59, 14 September 2022

Not to be confused with Jonestown, the failed Peoples Temple agricultural project founded by Jim Jones. Village in Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
Jonestown, Mahaica Voorzigtigheid
village
Jonestown, Mahaica is located in GuyanaJonestown, MahaicaJonestown, MahaicaLocation in Guyana
Coordinates: 6°41′04″N 57°55′03″W / 6.68442°N 57.91753°W / 6.68442; -57.91753
Country Guyana
RegionDemerara-Mahaica
Population
 • Total572
Time zoneUTC-4
ClimateAf

Jonestown is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica region of Guyana. The old name of the village was Voorzigtigheid. The village is located 37.5 kilometres (24 miles) from Georgetown between Hand-en-Veldt and the Atlantic Ocean, and near the town of Mahaica. Therefore, it tends to be called "Jonestown, Mahaica" or "Jonestown, Mahaica, ECD", even today, although by current Guyanese administrative regions it is in Demerara-Mahaica.

Lewis Osborne Inniss, the Trinidadian writer and folklorist (a druggist, by profession), was born in Jonestown in 1848.

Jonestown, together with nearby areas along the lower courses of the Mahaica and other rivers of northeastern Guyana, has suffered from flooding during the wet season in the early years of the 21st century.

This Jonestown is not to be confused with the Jonestown of the 1978 mass murder-and-suicide by members of the Peoples Temple. Although that short-lived Jonestown was also in Guyana, it was in a different part of the country. The two places share their name by happenstance and have no other ties.

Notes

  1. "Places of worship". Guyana Adventists. Retrieved 20 August 2020. Listed as Voorzigtigheid in their church index
  2. "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 20 August 2020. Listed as Voorzigtigheid
  3. ^ "Jonestown". Stabroek News. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  4. "Jonestown residents seek update on Lima bridge works". Stabroek News. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  5. Pierre, p.xv

References

  • Pierre, Barry V. (2000). Verbum Sap: A Tribute to L.O. Inniss. Port-of-Spain: (self-published). ISBN 1-86033-509-8.
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