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 → 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 → 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.
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