April 6, 2026 • 5 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Speedeet and Wilar — two boys from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Every Sunday.
De argument start before dey even reach de seawall.
“A kite need a tail,” Wilar say. He was carrying de bamboo frame, holding it careful like it was something important. Which it was. Dey had spend two hours building it.
“A kite don’t need a tail,” Speedeet say. He was carrying de string and de extra plastic bag material. “A tail is just showing off.”
Read More → April 6, 2026 • 4 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Speedeet & Wilar: two boys, one friendship, Pike Street, Georgetown. Every Sunday.
De kite string cut at exactly de wrong moment.
Speedeet had been holding it for forty-five minutes. His hand was cramping. De kite — a big diamond-shape one he and Wilar had built from bamboo and plastic bag material de night before — was flying good. Real good. Better than either of dem had expected.
Den de string cut.
Read More → March 29, 2026 • 3 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
A Speedeet & Wilar Story
De rain start Friday night and didn’t stop.
By Saturday morning, Pike Street was a river.
Not a deep river. Not a dangerous river. But enough water that Little Sanjay from down de road was already wading through it with he shorts hiked up, looking absolutely delighted.
Speedeet press he face against de window and watch him.
“Bai,” he say to Wilar, who was sitting at de kitchen table doing absolutely nothing dangerous, “you see what I see?”
Read More → March 24, 2026 • 7 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Weekly Feature
Speedeet and Wilar are two twelve-year-old best friends from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Their stories are pure adventure — no politics, no current events, just the business of being twelve years old in Guyana.
DE DAY DE KITE GET AWAY
De kite was Speedeet idea.
Not de buying part — he didn’t have enough money for dat — but de BUILDING part. He had been saving newspaper and bamboo strips for two weeks, watching YouTube videos on he uncle phone when he uncle wasn’t looking, calculating angles.
Read More → February 15, 2026 • 3 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Kids
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!”
Read More → February 2, 2026 • 8 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Youth Stories
Everybody on Pike Street know dat de BEST julie mango tree belong to Miss Doreen. Everybody also know dat Miss Doreen does guard dem mango like gold. So when Speedeet come up wid a plan to ’liberate’ some mango… well, yuh know how DIS gon end.
Read More → February 1, 2026 • 4 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
De Boys Seh
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 → February 1, 2026 • 4 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Weekly Feature
Speedeet and Wilar try to figure out Mashramani costumes on a budget of exactly zero dollars. Wilar has a plan. Speedeet has doubts. Miss Sharma’s clothesline has feathers.
Read More → January 27, 2026 • 7 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Fiction
When Wilar’s uncle knows the owner of a Chinese restaurant near Kitty Cinema, the boys get a behind-the-scenes tour that changes everything Speedeet thought he knew about fried rice.
Read More → January 20, 2026 • 9 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Youth Stories
Speedeet brother Derek get bite by carpet labaria at Tumatumari and end up in Georgetown Hospital. But while de family visiting, Speedeet and Wilar find a different kind of adventure in de hospital compound.
Read More → January 19, 2026 • 4 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
De Boys Seh
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 → January 19, 2026 • 5 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Youth Stories
Every Sunday, join two 12-year-old friends as they navigate life in modern Guyana.
De Visitor from Rupununi
Speedeet: Bai! BAI! Guess who reach yesterday!
Wilar: Who? (mouth full of tennis roll)
Speedeet: Me cousin Derek from Lethem! He come to stay whole school vacation!
Wilar: De one wid de stories?
Speedeet: De SAME one! And bai, he got stories THIS time. You know de government give dem solar panels?
Wilar: Solar panels? Like wha TV does run on?
Read More → January 18, 2026 • 3 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
De Boys Seh
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 → January 18, 2026 • 3 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Youth Stories
When Speedeet’s grandmother can’t find her medical file at the clinic, the two friends discover that going digital isn’t as simple as pressing a button.
Read More → January 15, 2026 • 6 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
De Boys Seh
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!
Read More → January 15, 2026 • 5 min readSpeedeet & Wilar
Youth Stories
Speedeet got a plan fuh get de biggest mango from Mr. Chan shop yard, and Wilar know is trouble but he going anyway. Wha could go wrong?
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