De Boys Seh is written from the perspective of Speedeet and Wilar — two 12-year-old boys from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Speedeet is Black, Wilar is East Indian. They are best friends and they have opinions about everything.
WILAR: Speedeet. Speedeet. Yuh hear de government give out $100,000 to people?
SPEEDEET: Yeah man. My granny get she cheque. She buy a new pot and put de rest in de bible.
Read More →De Boys Seh — Speedeet and Wilar from Pike Street with their Sunday take on the week.
WILAR: Speedeet. You know dey say de government announcing a digital registry for drivers?
SPEEDEET: Yeah. Track all yuh tickets and violations.
WILAR: You think they doing one for kite flyers too?
SPEEDEET: (pause) For kite flying?
WILAR: Our kite hit a woman roti today.
SPEEDEET: That was an accident.
WILAR: An accident that could be in a registry.
Read More →De boys liming on the corner of Robb and Hincks. What deh say? Well…
On the tint crackdown:
“Bai, deh pull over every man except the one in de blacked-out government SUV. Dat one just drive straight through.”
“De minister say ‘don’t call me.’ She know exactly who does call.”
“Listen, meh tint was 24% — one percent too dark. Deh fine meh thirty thousand dollars. Meanwhile de man who thief fourteen million in aircraft parts get bail in four hours.”
Read More →De Boys Seh is a weekly community roundtable. De boys gather. De boys talk. What could go wrong.
Shorty: Bai, yuh see de water out deh dis morning?
Tallman: My drain? Full. Me neighbour drain? Full. De gutter in front Mr. Persaud shop? Full. Everybody drain full except de government plan fuh fix dem.
Porkchop: Dem drain been de same since my grandfather time, bai. Dem drain older dan independence.
Read More →De Boys Seh is Speedeet and Wilar’s take on the week’s events. They are twelve years old. They have thoughts.
SPEEDEET: Wilar. Did you hear about de wheelbarrow?
WILAR: I heard about the wheelbarrow.
SPEEDEET: He brought a WHEELBARROW. To pay de court.
WILAR: Yes.
SPEEDEET: With COINS. In a WHEELBARROW.
WILAR: I understood it the first time, Speedeet.
SPEEDEET: But DO you UNDERSTAND it? Like do you fully understand what happened? A man — a grown man — a MAN WHO IS IN PARLIAMENT — brought a wheelbarrow full of coins to pay a four-million-dollar debt.
Read More →All characters are fictional. All scenarios are fictional. This is satire.
De boys seh dat a fictional contractor from somewhere on de fictional East Coast recently win a big government job, show up to sign de contract in a brand new truck, and then the very next day de truck wasn’t outside his house no more. De boys say it wasn’t his truck to begin with. De boys say he borrow it from his brother-in-law for de signing because “appearances matter.” De boys say de brother-in-law now want he truck back and de contractor saying it “temporarily unavailable.” De boys watching dis situation closely.
Read More →De Boys Seh is Speedeet and Wilar’s weekly kid commentary on the news. They’re 12. Their opinions are their own. No politics.
Speedeet: “So they build a big big training college in Berbice. Like, HUGE. To train people fuh work on de oil rigs.”
Wilar: “How big?”
Speedeet: “Twenty BILLION dollars big.”
Wilar: “…Dat is more than my school spend on we in my entire life.”
Speedeet: “Dat is more than EVERY school spend on EVERY student in de history of schools.”
Read More →De Boys Seh is overheard commentary from a fictional rum shop somewhere in Georgetown. The boys have opinions about everything and expertise in nothing. All characters are fictional.
De boys seh Exxon just buy de fourth oil ship and now dem own ALL four. De boys seh dat is like somebody renting yuh house, buying all de furniture, putting in dey own locks, and den telling you “but is still YOUR house though.” De boys seh de house might be yours on paper but try and sit down in de living room and see what happen.
Read More →Speedeet and Wilar try to understand interest-free loans, wonder who is paying for Mash costumes, and discover that big people use de word ‘ambitious’ for everything.
Read More →Speedeet and Wilar from Pike Street, Kitty try to understand oil contracts, wonder why soldiers watching de border, and complain about paying to attend birthday parties.
Read More →Speedeet and Wilar from Pike Street, Kitty break down fancy hotels, digital health records, and why de women cricket team is de real MVP.
Read More →Speedeet and Wilar share dem thoughts on cricket, video games, school lunch, and why adults always saying ‘back in me days.’ Short takes from two 12-year-olds!
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