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 Development Bank

Wilar: Speedeet, yuh hear bout dis new bank?

Speedeet: Wha bank? Me nah got nothing to PUT in a bank.

Wilar: Nah, dis one GIVE yuh money. Interest-free. No collateral.

Speedeet: (suspicious) Somebody giving away free money? Dat sound like when Marcus on Pike Street seh he got “investment opportunity” and everybody lose dem savings.

Wilar: Nah bai, dis is GOVERNMENT ting. US$100 million. Fuh youth and women and people with disabilities.

Speedeet: Youth? Dat mean WE could get money?

Wilar: We twelve. Me nah think dey giving loans to twelve-year-olds.

Speedeet: Why not?! Me got PLANS. Me would open a doubles stand right by de school gate. EVERYBODY hungry at 10 o’clock.

Wilar: Yuh cyaan even make doubles.

Speedeet: Me would HIRE someone to make doubles. Dat is wha yuh call DELEGATION.

Wilar: Yuh learn dat word yesterday, didn’t yuh?

Speedeet: Me mudda use it when she tell me to wash de dishes and I tell me little sister to do it instead. She seh “dat is not delegation, dat is laziness.” But ME seh is de same ting with a better name.

🎭 On Mashramani Preparations

Wilar: School telling we bout Mash parade practice.

Speedeet: Already? Mash nah till February 23!

Wilar: Dem want we to practice walking in a line. WALKING. IN. A. LINE. We does do dat EVERY DAY at school!

Speedeet: De real question is — who paying fuh de costumes?

Wilar: De school seh parents must contribute.

Speedeet: “Contribute.” Dat is big people word fuh “pay everything.”

Wilar: Me mudda seh she guh contribute exactly what she contributed last year.

Speedeet: Wha dat?

Wilar: Nothing.

Speedeet: (laughing) Consistent!

Wilar: She seh she not spending good money fuh me to walk down de road in de hot sun wearing cardboard and glitter.

Speedeet: She got a point though. Last year, Darren from Class 3B costume melt in de sun. De whole ting just… dissolve.

Wilar: He was using chocolate wrapper fuh decorations. In FEBRUARY. In GUYANA. Wha he expect?

📺 On Big People Using De Word “Ambitious”

Speedeet: Wilar, yuh notice how big people does use de word “ambitious” fuh EVERYTHING?

Wilar: Wha yuh mean?

Speedeet: De budget? “Ambitious.” De new bank? “Ambitious.” De school building? “Ambitious.” Me homework that me nah do? Me teacher seh THAT also “ambitious” — but she didn’t mean it nice.

Wilar: (thinking) True. When big people like something, is “ambitious and bold.” When dey don’t like it, is “unrealistic and reckless.”

Speedeet: SAME TING. Just depends who talking.

Wilar: Is like when me fadda cook and seh “dis is gourmet” but when me mudda taste it she seh “dis is a crime.”

Speedeet: (dying laughing) YUH FADDA COOK?!

Wilar: ONCE. Christmas Day. He try to make garlic pork. De whole house smell like a science experiment. Me grandmother open all de windows and seh she rather catch cold than smell dat food.

Speedeet: And he still call it gourmet?

Wilar: He seh it was “ambitious.” See? Everybody using dat word!

🌉 On De Bridge Accident

Wilar: Yuh hear bout de truck accident on de Demerara Bridge?

Speedeet: Yeah. Cement truck roll back and hit people. Somebody dead.

Wilar: And de driver didn’t even have a licence fuh dat kind of truck.

Speedeet: Bai. How yuh driving a BIG truck with no papers? Me cyaan even ride me bicycle without me mudda asking if me check de brakes.

Wilar: Yuh mudda check EVERYTHING. She probably check de weather, de wind, and yuh horoscope before she let yuh leave de yard.

Speedeet: True. But at least me alive!

Wilar: Point taken.

Next week: School start discussing “Career Day” and Speedeet discovers he has to pick a future career even though he hasn’t decided what he eating for lunch yet.

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! 🇬🇾