De Boys Seh is a roundup of what people saying in the yard, on the road, and in the rum shop. No names, no faces, and absolutely no legal responsibility.
De boys seh the two firefighters who allegedly took a laptop from a Quamina Street fire scene are now on active duty while the investigation runs. De boys seh staying on active duty after that kind of allegation is a thing only a government job could arrange. Private sector, you clearing out your desk by Tuesday.
De boys seh Kevin Sinclair went to the bathroom in a Harpy Eagles practice match and simply never returned. Changed into street clothes. Game still going. Three wickets left. De boys seh the bathroom must be real comfortable, because the man looked like he had no intention of ever coming back. Ramnaresh Sarwan held a full press conference about it. Full. Press. Conference. About a man and a bathroom. This is cricket. This is Guyana.
De boys seh Venezuelan generals are paying 8% above market price for Guyanese gold, and Guyanese smugglers are taking that deal. De boys seh they understand the math — but the Cuyuní River is not a trade route, it is a border with armed groups on the other side charging rent to miners. That is not a business opportunity. That is a war zone entry fee.
De boys seh the Corentyne River fee situation with Suriname is getting serious. Private sector want to cancel bridge talks. De boys seh you can’t charge a man to use the river between your two countries and then turn around and ask him to split the cost of a bridge over it. That is not diplomacy. That is audacity.
De boys seh GWI been pouring money into the same leaks near the Bank of Guyana for months and those leaks are still there. De boys seh it’s possible GWI is not trying to fix the leaks. It’s possible the leaks are now load-bearing.
De boys seh Guyana won three gold medals at CARIFTA on Day One and some people who don’t normally pay attention to athletics are suddenly very patriotic. De boys seh that’s fine. Patriotism is allowed. Even the bandwagon kind.
De boys seh the $100,000 cash grant going through the banking system is a clever move because it forces people to open accounts. De boys seh half of those accounts will see zero activity after the grant clears. The other half will be at the phone credit top-up shop by Friday.
De boys seh there’s no theatrical production for Guyana’s 60th Independence Anniversary. Sixty years. No stage show about where we came from. De boys seh we have a 300-megawatt power plant under construction but we couldn’t fund a play. The priorities are what they are.
De boys seh Easter Sunday is the one day everybody is friendly in the traffic. De boys seh enjoy it. Monday coming.
De Boys Seh runs every Sunday and Thursday. The boys are not liable for anything.