Laluni is located on the Soesdyke Highway and access to the community is via a nine-mile road from Kuru Kururu. Laluni has been setup as a farming community from the beginning. This community is famous for its agriculture diversity, including its cherries which are supplied to some of the major juice factories in the country.
The community started off with 11 farmers and workers, a number which then grew to 50 persons farming tobacco. Cash crop farming in the area became popular when the Demerera Tobacco Company (Demtoco) ceased cultivating tobacco there in the early 1990s.
A number of residents turned out in Laluni to celebrate their 63rd anniversary as a CDC community and the first ever village day, last Sunday. Laluni came into being through the efforts of Wilfred Henry on 3rd March 1955. According to Chairman of the CDC, Aaron Defreitas this will be an annual event. He pointed out that the village day is being used primarily to bring villagers together, as a means of enhancing an already close-knit community.
Defreitas further noted that Laluni, an agricultural community, will seek to further promote the many agricultural products that persons can access from the area. “Our village day is one that is being executed with a difference, as it allows a number of persons across Guyana to see the rich benefits of this agricultural community. In Laluni through the many products that come from this community, we can further enhance the economic development around us,” the Chairman said.
A monument was unveiled at the observance and the community also raised its first village flag. According to Ruth Henry, great-granddaughter of the founder of Laluni, the flag’s design depicts the agricultural and other benefits of the community. (Excerpts from DPI, photos by Alva Solomon) (Guyana Times Sunday Magazine)
