May 5, 1838 Highbury : This was where the first batch of Indian Indenture Labourers arrived in Guyana.
A large building exist where Indian Arrival Day celebration takes place every year. In 2007 the bridge between Highbury and Mara was broken and Mara was occupied mostly by the forest. The late GNI Mara was from this place, where they farmed and had cows for milk that they sold.
At Highbury was a school where another GNI poster's brother was a teacher and solar panels operated the pump that fill the overhead water tank. There was a police outpost and medical clinic, including a card telephone near the road. The cemetery was filled with tall bushes, that covered the graves. Surfacing the road to Highbury was controversial for a long time, due to contractor and government mismanagement.