Columbus find de East Bank traffic

Oct 13, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Fuh weeks now, people missing dem flight like how man used to miss curfew in de old days. You plan to reach airport three hours before, and still end up waving goodbye to the plane from behind a truckload of cement blocks. Some people now living at CJIA permanent—dey luggage done get citizenship stamp.

But hear dis one: it tek de government weeks—weeks!—to “discover” the problem. Just like Christopher Columbus, dem boys seh. He sail all over de ocean and bump up pon a whole continent he ain’t know was there.

Same thing wid dem big ones now. East Bank traffic been mashing up people sanity long before de first truckload of crusher run touch de ground, but only now dem “discover” it—after half of Timehri turn into a parking lot and visitors start threatening to never come back.

One overseas Guyanese seh he done wid it. He tell he family, “If I have to face that East Bank Road again, I staying in New York where at least de traffic got rules.” Imagine that—Guyana losing tourist money not because of bandits or blackouts, but because of bad driving and one eternal road project!

So now, we hearing de contractors and consultants get call in. Dem seh de Riot Act read to dem. But dem boys seh, de Riot Act shoulda been read long time ago—to de drivers! Because de biggest problem ain’t de roadworks; is de people pon de road. Every morning, a two-lane road does magically turn into three lanes—all going one way. Northbound? Forget it. You could pitch a tent and wait. Dem drivers creating new lanes like dem got shares in asphalt.

And traffic control? Non-existent. De few traffic ranks you see does look tired of life. Some stand like statue, watching de chaos like dem waiting fuh divine intervention. What Guyana need right now ain’t more consultants and “high-level meetings.” We need more traffic police wid charge sheets, and some barriers to stop dem indiscipline drivers from boring and creating chaos…

If dem put proper barricades and enough ranks to control de flow, traffic would move steady—slow, but steady. Everybody would reach de airport in time to catch dem flight instead of catching hypertension.

Dem boys seh, until dat happen, government gon keep “discovering” de East Bank traffic problem every few weeks, like Columbus finding de same island again and again. And de only thing flying regular outta Guyana these days—is people temper.

Talk half. Leff half.

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