Every Sunday, Speedeet and Wilar give we dem take on wha happening in Guyana from a 12-year-old perspective. Two boys from Pike Street, Kitty - no politics, just real talk!
🏨 On De New Fancy Hotel
Speedeet: Bai, yuh hear bout de new hotel dat open? Eighteen MILLION dollars!
Wilar: (eating biscuit) Million wha? Guyana dollars?
Speedeet: NAH bai, US dollars! Dat is like… like…
Wilar: Like how much?
Speedeet: Me cyaan even count dat high. But dem got a rooftop bar and a “presidential suite.”
Wilar: Wha is a presidential suite?
Speedeet: Is like a room, but fuh president people. Fancy bed, fancy TV, fancy everything.
Wilar: So if me save me lunch money fuh like… ten years… me could stay deh?
Speedeet: (laughing) Bai, yuh lunch money is forty dollars. Yuh guh need fuh save till yuh DEAD and come back again!
Wilar: Man, me grandmother always seh “money nah grow pon tree.” Now me understand why.
💻 On De Digital Health Records
Speedeet: Yuh know dem putting all de medical records pon computer now?
Wilar: Like de hospital know everything bout yuh now?
Speedeet: EVERYTHING, bai. Every time yuh get sick, every injection, every belly wuk…
Wilar: (worried) Wait… so dem guh know bout de time me eat twelve tamarind balls and couldn’t leave de bathroom fuh three hours?
Speedeet: (dying laughing) DAT DEH PON RECORD NOW!
Wilar: Dis is invasion of me privacy! Me was SEVEN!
Speedeet: Privacy? Bai, yuh live in Pike Street. EVERYBODY know yuh business already. Miss Devi next door know when yuh fadda sneeze.
Wilar: True. She does call me grandmother before me fadda even reach fuh de tissue.
🏏 On De Women Cricket Team WINNING
Speedeet: But wait - yuh see de women cricket team?
Wilar: TWO wins! Dem beating everybody!
Speedeet: Campbelle score fifty not out against Jamaica. FIFTY!
Wilar: Me sister seh she want fuh play cricket now because of dem.
Speedeet: Yuh sister? De one who throw like she arm got hinge problem?
Wilar: (sighing) De SAME one. She bin practicing bowling in de yard yesterday. Mash up we fence.
Speedeet: De fence?!
Wilar: De ball ain’t even REACH de fence. She let go too early and it fly BACKWARD and knock down de paling.
Speedeet: (laughing so hard he choking) How yuh bowl BACKWARD?!
Wilar: Bai, me nah know. But me fadda face when he see de fence… I thought HE was guh need medical records!
Speedeet: At least now dem guh have it pon computer!
💰 On Big People Money Talk
Wilar: Me hear me mudda and fadda talking bout “private banking” and “sophisticated economy.”
Speedeet: Wha dat mean?
Wilar: Me nah know. But me fadda laugh and seh “sophisticated economy but de road in front we house still got crater like de moon.”
Speedeet: (looking outside) True! De pothole by Miss Sharma house so big, last week a car almost DISAPPEAR in it.
Wilar: Me grandmother seh she see fish swimming in deh when it rain.
Speedeet: Fish?!
Wilar: She exaggerating. But she seh if dem focused less on fancy banking and more on de road, she wouldn’t need new slippers every month from walking through mud.
Speedeet: Big people does talk bout progress but de progress nah reach Pike Street yet.
Wilar: It guh come. Me mudda seh patience.
Speedeet: Yuh mudda right. Plus we got cricket to watch!
Next week: Speedeet and Wilar discuss why birthday party now cost money to attend, and whether yuh REALLY need to bring a gift if yuh paying entry fee.
Speedeet & Wilar are two 12-year-old best friends from Pike Street, Kitty. Dem commentary is just fuh laughs - no politics, just life through young Guyanese eyes!