Sunday

De Boys Seh: Whose Streets Are These Exactly?

De Boys Seh is a weekly community roundtable. De boys gather. De boys talk. What could go wrong.

Shorty: Bai, yuh see de water out deh dis morning?

Tallman: My drain? Full. Me neighbour drain? Full. De gutter in front Mr. Persaud shop? Full. Everybody drain full except de government plan fuh fix dem.

Porkchop: Dem drain been de same since my grandfather time, bai. Dem drain older dan independence.

Speedeet & Wilar: De Day De Rain Come Down

A Speedeet & Wilar Story

De rain start Friday night and didn’t stop.

By Saturday morning, Pike Street was a river.

Not a deep river. Not a dangerous river. But enough water that Little Sanjay from down de road was already wading through it with he shorts hiked up, looking absolutely delighted.

Speedeet press he face against de window and watch him.

“Bai,” he say to Wilar, who was sitting at de kitchen table doing absolutely nothing dangerous, “you see what I see?”