Too much brief, not enough doctors

Nov 16, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana got more lawyers than potholes— and that is saying something. Everywhere you turn, is a next young attorney clutching a law book like a newborn baby, hoping somebody, anybody, would bring a lil case fuh dem to argue. But cases scarce like ice in a blackout. Some of dem lawyers so hungry fuh wuk, dem settling down quietly behind lil desks in all kinda government offices— not the Attorney General one, mind you— but all dem other departments where the most legal thing happening is signing for stationery.

Yet, we proudly building we own law school. A whole law school, boys and girls! Each year we turning out more lawyers like is plantain chips— crispy, shiny, and plenty. Before long, dem boys seh we gon need a registry just to keep track of which lawyer ain’t got a client yet.

But hear the real joke: the only field where Guyana got an actual shortage— we ain’t expanding that at all! Medicine. Yes, medicine! Hundreds of bright, brilliant, book-smart children got the grades fuh enter medical school. Dem study night and day, drink more coffee than water, and finish with all the subjects that does make ordinary people get headache. But when time come to get in UG medical school, is like trying to get a window seat on a LIAT flight— impossible.

Meanwhile, we building hospitals faster than you can say, “Doctor!” New hospitals popping up like cook-up pots on Old Year’s Night. And after we build dem? We importing Cuban doctors! Nothing wrong with the Cubans— dem brilliant— but wha sense it make that we own children could become doctors, but we closing the door pon dem?

Dem boys seh if is lawyers we want, we already set fuh the next century. But if is doctors we need, we better start widening that medical programme before the hospitals start hiring attorneys fuh diagnose flu. As one of dem boys mutter while sipping he tea: “Only in Guyana you graduating lawyers fuh sue the hospital, but don’t have doctors fuh run it.”

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