Latest update April 3rd, 2026 12:35 AM

Guyana's largest selling daily and New York's most popular weekly

Latest News

Cabinet reach out or reach back?

Nov 22, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh…

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh Region Six had a big Cabinet Outreach this week. But de way dem boys see it, is not an outreach—more like a reach back, like when yuh drop yuh phone behind de bed and got to stretch yuh whole spine to pick it up. Dem Ministers wasn’t going to meet de people; dem was going to retrieve de votes whah run away since 2020.

Dem boys remember when Jagdeo used to do these grand outreach things—truckloads of officials, tents like wedding house, and promises flying like mosquito in rice field. It flop then, and it flopping now. De only difference is de new set smiling more and promising twice. But Berbicians know better. Dem see politicians come and go more than mosquito coils in Canje.

Dem boys seh, is one thing to go pon stage and announce plans. But Region Six done choke with plans! Plans for sugar, plans for jobs, plans for development—plans stack up so high dem could build a bridge to Suriname. Meanwhile de root problem still deh: an economic model whah mek de rich man richer and de poor man pack dem bag and head to Timehri.

Berbice children can’t get wuk. De sugar industry, once de heart and soul of de region, now pon life support—breathing through one tube and praying de doctor don’t sneeze. And every time you feel things might turn around, some politician jump in and start meddling with local authority like is he own kitchen.

Dem boys seh de Cabinet go and promise people land fuh house lots. But tell dem, “A piece of land is not a house.” Yuh still got to find money fuh sand, cement, zinc, blocks, paint, tile, furniture, curtain, rug and de flat-screen TV fuh watch de same politicians mek more promises. Where that money coming from? From the “fastest growing economy in the world”? Berbice still waiting fuh see that speed.

Dem boys seh outreach nice, but what Berbice really want is outcomes. Stop stretching out yuh hand fuh votes and start stretching out solutions that actually wuk. Until then, all dem outreach is pure reach-around.

Talk half. Leff half.

 

Discover more from Kaieteur News

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Similar Articles

Listen to the The Glenn Lall Show

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

Your children are starving, and you giving away their food to an already fat pussycat.

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Attention shifts to $10M Nitro Kart Clash

Attention shifts to $10M Nitro Kart Clash

Apr 03, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – All focus has now been shifted to the Jumbo Jet events sponsored Nitro Kart Clash, set for April 19 at the National Stadium, Providence Tarmac. With over $10M on offer for...
Read More

VIEW ALL SPORTS

Features/Columnists

Has the world lost its conscience?

Has the world lost its conscience?

Apr 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) –The world today stands on the edge of an energy crisis. But this crisis did not appear out of nowhere. It has been building, quietly and steadily, alongside a deep and growing indifference to human suffering. As the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States intensifies,...
Read More

Sir. Ronald Sanders

The Cost of Silence: How the OAS is Undermining its Own Relevance

The Cost of Silence: How the OAS is Undermining its Own Relevance

Mar 29, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Organization of American States is approaching a defining test, not of its existence, but of its significance. It continues to meet, to commemorate events, but fails to tackle pressing political issues. At a time of global turmoil, economic strain, and...
Read More

The GHK Lall Column

It is Good Friday. What a day! Darkness prevailed.

It is Good Friday. What a day! Darkness prevailed.

Apr 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) –There were those who turned to Judas, then turned him.  Then they turned into smooth representations of him.  They weren’t pandits and ayatollahs.  They were the powers of religious tradition in Jesus’ time.  Men immersed in Mosaic laws, the teachings of their...
Read More

Publisher’s Note

Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.

Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: glennlall2000@gmail.com / kaieteurnews@yahoo.com

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

> Berbice Bridge […]