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Jun 13, 2008 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Wheh laugh deh, cry deh, but then again, all skin teeth nah laugh. Dem boys tekking two beer de other night when a man walk up and call fuh a stiff drink. Dem boys nevah know this man to drink suh dem know that something serious had to happen.
Dem watch de man and dem ain’t seh nutten because everybody does have to mind dem own business these times. But curiosity is a hell of a ting suh dem boys sit down and watch de man.
De man down de drink and he see dem boys watching he. Then he talk loud and hard. “I going back and beg Horatio fuh tek me back.” Everybody know that is one or two things. Is either de man talking bout North American Airways, which gone anyway; or de Chronic.”
It tun out that de man lef de Chronic to guh and wuk wid de Times.

Fuh four days de man wondering if he was really a sports reporter then he do wha Christ do, but in three days. He rose and walked.
Dem boys ask he wha happen and he seh that he thought that the Times had green grass but is grass that he peep through sunshades. One man done calling de paper de Lighthouse paper.
Dem have a reporter who use to wuk wid de Waterfalls paper and he was good at entertainment. He lef there and he go to de islands wheh, like de man who wuk wid de Lighthouse paper fuh four days, he lef de people as soon as he get pay and come back home.
When dem boys look at de paper was like if this man is a one man army; he write more than 50 per cent of de local stories, which is about four. The rest of de paper is foreign news and dem boys want to know if de Lighthouse paper is fuh Guyana or fuh de foreign market.
De Waterfalls Boss man read de papers de other day and he see a notice fuh vacancies. Dem want reporters, editors, photographers, purchasing agents, and graphic artists. De Waterfalls boss man want de wuk.
That ain’t de only thing that mek dem boys open dem eyes big. Another was de return of de Prodigal daughter. She was sick and she come back.

De staff claim how dem didn’t miss de water till de well run dry. Was hard guava season when de woman did gone because whoever was running de show was like Dracula because de whole staff was afraid.
But is de same staff use to cuss de woman when she was wukking. Dem holler how she like a tyrant and how she mind bad. If you see de flowers. Dem boys think was a wedding dem was going to. Is de boss lady who spoil it. She claim how she been at death’s door. That is another occasion fuh flowers. That is wha dem boys seh.
Of course, dem boys seh that people don’t like talk bout death, especially when dem realize that dem friends dying, instead of dem parents’ friends. People does now hide behind a door till dem hear people talking them name then dem does walk in.

De people got a saying that if you enter a room pun you name then you gun live long. No tricks, no living. That is wha dem boys seh.
Now how people can explain de man who bring in cars from China. People always buying cars from Japan and de States and place like that. Now cars coming from China.

That is remarkable because dem boys remember when de country had Chinee stove, Chinee fan, Chinee brush, Chinee watch, Chinee bicycle, Chinee long boots, Chinee embassy, clothes made in China, and even Chinee lamp. This is a new addition and it had to tek a Guyanese to mek this happen.
Dem boys seh that is only a matter of time that people gun be talking Chinee. And of course is a good thing because Sanata, which was a Chinee thing, is now Guyanese. But what is de case? It mean that de balance shifting. And is not that we ain’t got Chinee umbrella and Chinee telephone.
We got dem cook shop and Chinee spice and Chinee seasoning and Chinee this and Chinee that, even Chinee cake. Today is Chinee car.
Talk half. Lef half.

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