Forty feet canal need a name change

Nov 02, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News

(Kaieteur News) – Dennis Chabrol has published photographs of the Cummings Canal, popularly known as the Forty Feet Trench. And dem boys had to stop and look twice, because dem boys remember when that trench was a different story altogether.

When dem boys was small, dem used to swim in that trench. But if yuh parents ever find out, yuh was sure to get licks. Dem parents know the water was black, the trench was extremely deep, and nobody could see what was lurking beneath. It was one of them places where yuh jump in as a boy and pray that yuh come up as a man.