Elections is not Christmas Eve

Aug 31, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh every election time in Guyana, people does behave like is Christmas Eve. Yuh see them rushing into the supermarket, trolley full to the brim, like Santa coming by with he sleigh. Meat, fish, groceries—two months supply. Some does even buy enough flour fuh open a bakery.

Is like people preparing for some apocalypse. Yuh would think the ballot boxes is missiles and not just plastic containers with pieces of paper. Dem boys seh Guyana is the only country in the world where elections got people stocking up like hurricane warning come.

But leh we tell yuh something. Stop it! Every five years, is the same panic buying. Rich folks does go and buy out the supermarket shelves. Poor man left watching from the corner like he at a museum: “So that is what a full trolley look like, eh?”

This behaviour comes from fear.

Fear that after elections yuh can’t go out fuh buy a lil bread and butter.

Fear that something gon happen.

Fear that tek over so much that people forget common sense.

Dem boys seh is time we stop letting fear drive we actions. Elections is not COVID. Yuh don’t need to hoard toilet paper like yuh backside suddenly develop new appetite. Yuh don’t need to buy ten cases of sardines and five drums of oil.

And hear dis. If trouble come, is not the rice and flour gon save yuh. Is common sense, peace, and patience.

So leh we get real. Supermarkets will still deh open the day after elections. Fish still swimming in the sea. Chicken still clucking in the yard. And yuh still gon need space in yuh freezer for the Christmas meat later this year.

Dem boys seh calm down, stop the madness. Elections is elections, Not Christmas Eve, not Judgment Day. Everything gon be all right.

Talk half. Leff half.

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