Kids

De Boys Seh: Training College, Carnival, and Why Cricket Better Than School

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.”

Speedeet & Wilar: De Newspaper Wha Close Down

Speedeet and Wilar are 12-year-old best friends from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Speedeet is Black, Wilar is East Indian. They get into adventures every Sunday.

Wilar was sitting on de front step reading something on he phone when Speedeet come running down Pike Street like he late fuh school.

“Yo! Wilar! You hear wha happen?”

Wilar look up slow. “Wha happen now? Somebody goat get loose again?”

“No, man! De newspaper close down! Stabroek News! Ma was reading it on she phone and she start crying!”