Its 250 residents are engaged mainly in the farming of rice and ground provisions.

The population has decreased a lot because of migration to other parts of Guyana, However, there is still a primary school and a church on Hogg Island.

The island used to be controlled by the Dutch when it was known as Varken Eiland[2] or Hog Island, so named due to it being inhabited by a large number of wild hogs.

Then in 1814 with the cessation of the Napoleonic Wars the British gained control of the Dutch colonies: Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, leaving the Dutch with Suriname until 1975.

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