Big airport, same ol’ cardboard box mentality

Oct 17, 2024 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh…

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh we got a big, fancy airport now. Expand deh terminal, build dem nice gates, and even put a nice glass wall fuh people to peep through. But guess what? De mentality still like if we running a lil cardboard box airport. Big shiny building, small-town attitude.

Check de outgoing terminal. Yuh got passengers behind de glass like aquarium fish. And dem relatives? Outside waving like they sending off boat people. We got space fuh all ah dem inside, but nah. Only passengers allowed through de door. De rest gotta watch through de glass and shout “Bye-bye!” like if is an old-time steam ship.

And is de same story with de incoming area. Deh families and friends who come to pick up people gotta huddle up like sardine in a tin on a tiny strip outside. But yuh want to see de joke? Yuh can’t go in to wait fuh yuh family, but if yuh bladder burstin’, you can waltz right in and use de washroom! What kinda sense dat make? Go in fuh a lil relief but not to say “Welcome back”?

Now outside de incoming area is even funnier. Dem boys put a nice lil asphalt area where de airport taxis supposed to park up. But yuh know Guyanese style. Anybody and everybody using de spot! Private cars, minibus, donkey cart—all mixing up. Cars driving in, picking up passengers like is a bus park. It’s a miracle nobody get knock down yet. Dem boys seh it’s only a matter of time before somebody get lick down there. Then is big cry and finger-pointing.

And leh we not forget de parking lot drama. Big, big sign saying “Reserved fuh Airport Taxis” on de south side. “Unauthorized vehicles will be towed away,” it seh. But take a drive through de parking lot. Yuh will see all kinda car park up there—anything but airport taxis. De only thing getting tow is people patience.

But dat is Guyana fuh yuh! Big terminal, plenty rules, but who following dem? Is like wearing a three-piece suit and still eating doubles with yuh fingers. Dem boys seh is not de building that need expanding—it’s de mentality.

Talk half. Leff half.

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