Politician mouth ain’t got no back door

Nov 18, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem boys seh…

Kaieteur News – A Guyanese politician land in one village de other day, chest high and smile broad like he done save de world already. He ask de villagers, “Wha y’all need?” like he Santa Claus come early.

De village man tell he plain-plain, “Boss man, we only got two lil needs.”

“Shoot,” de politician seh, feeling important.

“Fuss t’ing, we got a hospital… but no doctor.”

Before de man could even blink, de politician pull out he cell phone quick-quick, press up nuff button, talk loud-loud so everybody could hear. After a big, fancy conversation, he tell dem, “Don’t worry, a doctor gon reach here by tomorrow.”

Dem boys seh de villagers look impressed… until de politician ask, “And wha’s de second problem?”

De villager clear he throat and seh, “Well sir… is just one small issue: dis whole village ain’t got no cellphone signal.”

Dat story remind dem boys that every election season come with its own weather pattern. It does got sun, breeze, and a whole lotta hot air. And is de hot air from politicians that does raise the temperature more than climate change. Is like dem gat a special factory somewhere mass-producing promises—big, shiny, sweet-sounding promises—that does vanish faster than snow cone in midday sun.

Yuh ever notice how campaign time does suddenly turn everybody into miracle workers? Man who can’t even fix he own gate suddenly promising to fix de whole country. One fella say he bringing free water, free light, free education, free transportation. Dem boys seh at this rate, all that gon lef to pay for is yuh own coffin—and even that might come wid a subsidy if yuh vote early.

But leh we talk reality. Guyana ain’t short of resources; is short of completed projects. For every promise delivered, ten deh still wandering in de wilderness looking fuh a contractor. We got roads promised since Burnham time, drainage promised since Jagan time, and accountability promised since Adam and Eve tek de first bite.

What funny is how people does still clap. We love a good promise more than we love a good pepperpot. But de truth is: you can’t build a future on empty talk. You can’t develop a nation on speeches. And you can’t full yuh pot with campaign vows.

Dem boys seh is time we stop getting high off promises and start asking fiuhtimelines, budgets, and some proof that de plan ain’t scribble pon the back of a napkin. Until then, brace yuhself. More promises coming. Bigger ones. Shinier ones. And just like de last batch, dem might end up right where dem always does: in de land of “shortly” and “soon”.

Talk half. Leff half.

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