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Dem boys seh… Dem beggars gun protest

Nov 26, 2009 News

Imagine how this country so rough that people stop wukking in office and looking fuh teaching job. Everybody want a job that encouraging scampishness. Today Guyana got more contractors that it got contracts.

De other day dem boys see three contractors line up fuh a wuk that good contractors use to refuse and shovel men use to do. Is now a technical thing to dig a drain wid a shovel and de government paying good money.

Was a time when dem village council use to lot out drain digging. Now dem boys seh that any wuk like that got to go to de government fuh a public bidding and a tender.

And dem got nuff policemen. Dem boys seh that de beggars now ketching hell because dem can’t compete.

Was a time when beggars use to sit down and collect. Now dem got to hustle. Some of dem buy bicycles because de police wukking from cars and pick ups. Dem is now de ones who mekking money that beggars use to get long time.

Dem boys seh that it ain’t easy. And Khurshid vex because he claim that de police is a public servant and dem mekking money and not paying tax pun de extra.

De police seh that when dem pay tax de government giving dem contractor and how dem ain’t wukking suh hard fuh give away dem money. De beggars seh that dem gun protest outside Office of de President because if dem go to police headquarters dem gun get arrest and taken to Leonora.

Talk half. Lef half.

 

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