Guyanese would rob even God

May 16, 2016 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Guyana is a country teeming with criminals. A world famous boxer once came to Guyana to a rousing welcome. Everyone wanted to embrace him and he was only too willing to stretch out his hand to greet them. He did this once too often and lost his wristwatch.
The reason most of our farmers cannot diversify into other crops that would be more profitable than rice is because of theft. The reason Guyana cannot produce pasteurized milk and cheese is because the cattle industry is stagnated due to rustling.
Farmers are the hardest workers in Guyana. They work in the fields all day and at nights they have to go into the back dam to sleep with their animals so as to protect them from theft. This is why so many stick with rice even though they are losing.
They will lose more if they go into other crops. They will plant and others will reap.
There too many thieves to count in Guyana. People are raiding clotheslines. People are coming into your yards and stealing your plant pots.
People are stealing whatever they can get their hands on. And there are people who are buying or collecting the stolen property from these criminals.
School children are molested on their way from school. Big boys are “sticking them up” with knives and ice picks and taking away their money and their cellular phones. In which other country in the world are school children afraid to walk the streets? This is not merely a security problem. There are women who take pride in the fact that their man is a “thief man”.
There are people who see what other people have worked hard for and plot how to deprive these people. How can any country progress when there is so much stealing?
There was a time when people felt that the problem could be traced to politics. The argument was that if the “big boys” are stealing, the “small man” would do the same. That is a false argument. The dishonest “big boys” are themselves products of a criminalized society.
Making a hustle now has more than one interpretation. It can mean making a dollar but it can also mean making a dishonest dollar.
And there are a lot of people making dishonest dollars in this country. There are a lot of people on the “wrong-type” of hustle.
It got worse with Independence. There was a time in colonial Guyana when people used to be ashamed of having a member of their family involved in crime. They used to go to great lengths to hide the criminal activity of their family members.
These days, people who engage in dishonest activities are cult heroes in Guyana. The suspected drug lords always seem to walk with large entourages of friends and concubines who are proud to be associated with the criminal underworld.
The criminals in Guyana are so brazen they would rob even God.
Years ago, parents who wanted to know what their kids wanted for Christmas would encourage them to write a letter to God asking for their heart’s desire. The parents would then open the letter go and buy whatever the child requested from God and place it under the Christmas tree.
A few years ago, a parent told his son that if he wrote to God that his Christmas wish would be granted. The son agreed to write the letter.
The son took out a piece of paper and began to write, “Dear Baby Jesus, I have been a good boy the whole year, so I want a new…” He looked at it, then crumples it up into a ball and throws it away.
He got out a new piece of paper and wrote again, “Dear baby Jesus, I have been a good boy for most of the year, so I want a new…” He again looked at the paper and with disgust and threw it in the wastepaper basket.
He then went into his mother’s room and took up a statue of the Virgin Mary. He placed the statue in the closet, and locked the door.
He then took up another piece of paper and wrote, “Dear baby Jesus. If you ever want to your see your mother again…”

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Surujpaul Rampersaud May 16, 2016 at 9:45 am

There is definite breakdown of morals and values. Since independence we seem to all to be filed with the ” get rich quick syndrome”. This has forced many progressive Guyanese to leave. Shakespeare was so correct when he wrote ” Fair is foul and foul is fair” meaning that the wrong things will be seen as right and the right thing as wrong. There are still many good Guyanese, so do not generalize. We can make a turn around.

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