Every Sunday, de boys lime by de road and assess de week. This is what dey seh.

FIRST THING FIRST: HAPPY EASTER

Doodoo seh happy Easter to everybody. Banna seh he ain’t eat so much since Christmas and he regretting it already. Fisherman seh he went to early mass, flew a kite with he nephew, and now he sitting down with a plate of cook-up that could feed a small regiment. We taking that as a positive report.

DE PILOT IN DE BUSH

Everybody worried about the ASL pilot. Doodoo seh the GDF boys climbing steep mountain and thick jungle in the hot sun and they nearly reach. Banna seh if that was him in that plane he would’ve had a heart attack before the crash. Fisherman seh stop making joke — a man life in the balance and the soldiers doing something hard. We agree. We praying for Captain Castello and we praying for the rescue team too. Good people on both sides of that search.

DE WALES CONTRACT STORY

Kaieteur drop something big this week about the Wales gas project — secret contracts, Guyana already paying Exxon through cost recovery, a take-or-pay agreement for 375 billion cubic feet of gas, and Lindsayca trying to squeeze out another US$250 million on top of the US$82 million they already collect.

Doodoo seh: “So when dey tell we the gas was free, the gas wasn’t free?”

Banna seh: “The gas was free like how a credit card is free.”

Fisherman seh: “Who sign these contracts? Name them.”

Nobody could name them. That is the whole problem.

DE NATIONAL CLEANUP

De government held a big national cleanup exercise Saturday. Joint Services, civilians, everybody pick up garbage all over the country.

Banna seh: “How long before it dirty again?”

Doodoo seh: “By Tuesday.”

Fisherman seh: “That ain’t the point. The point is the habit.”

Banna seh: “Tuesday.”

We going with Tuesday.

BARTICA GETTING A HOSPITAL

New hospital breaking ground in Bartica. Twenty-four months to build.

Fisherman seh: “Why Berbice people always have to wait the longest for everything? Oil pulling out from right next to them and the hospital just now breaking ground.”

Doodoo seh: “At least it breaking ground.”

Fisherman seh: “I want it to break ground in 2022 when they first announce it.”

Banna seh: “Berbice strong. Berbice accustom waiting.”

Fisherman seh: “That is not a compliment.”

DE OPPOSITION DRAMA

Azruddin Mohamed fire the PNCR woman as Chief Scrutineer. Aubrey Norton talking about don’t import crime. The whole opposition bench looking like a group project where everybody disagree on the topic.

Doodoo seh: “They fighting each other and they supposed to be fighting the government.”

Banna seh: “Is good strategy. Keep the government confused about which direction the attack coming from.”

Fisherman seh: “Banna, that is not strategy. That is chaos.”

Banna seh: “Confused chaos.”

DE SWADISH FOOD FESTIVAL

Multiple international cuisines. Local favourites. Georgetown this weekend.

Fisherman went. He said the curry was adequate. Coming from Fisherman, adequate is high praise. He ate three plates.

FINAL WORD

Doodoo seh: “This was a hard week. Plane down, gas contract scandal, cleanup that go dirty by Tuesday. But Harpy Eagles playing today in Antigua. So something to watch.”

Banna seh: “And Captain Thunderface fly the highest kite on the seawall before he escape.”

Fisherman seh: “What?”

Banna seh: “Nothing. Easter thing.”

De Boys Seh is a satirical Sunday commentary in Guyanese dialect. De boys are fictional. De opinions are real.