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Dec 04, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh when yuh hear ole people proverb, is not joke-talk. Is wisdom wrap up experience. An’ if ever de government need some wisdom in dem head is now.

Imagine just a few years back, dem spend lil more than a hundred million fuh clear La Repentir burial ground. Today, reports seh is more than three times that. Three times! Dem boys seh even de dead must be raising dem eyebrow bone.

Yuh see, ole people always holler, “Wonton waste does bring woeful want.” And dem didn’t need no feasibility study fuh know that. When yuh start spend like is endless river flowing, one day yuh gan wake up and realise is only a trickle lef’.

But some ah we leaders behaving like because we find oil, is free-for-all. One ole aunty use to say, “Not because yuh gat money, yuh gon waste it.” Dem boys seh she talking straight to some people in high office who feel treasury got bottomless pit.

La Repentir clearing now looking like a luxury resort project. What dem clearing? Gold-plated coffins? Diamond vines? Or maybe is platinum weed? Dem boys want know who cost out this ting, because from one hundred million jump to three hundred-plus sounding like somebody mark up de bill with imagination instead of calculator.

Government must remember that Guyana ain’t turn Dubai yet. Yes, de country getting money now, but de future ain’t guarantee. Oil price got mood swings like rainy season. It up today, down tomorrow. When de coffers start squeeze, all dem extravagant projects gan come back fuh haunt we like jumbie by the cemetery gate.

Dem boys seh government need tighten de belt, not loosen it. Be prudent, be wise, and stop treating taxpayers’ money like is rich uncle inheritance. Spend, but spend smart. Develop, but develop with sense. Because if we continue pun this fancy-fancy road, we gan soon find weself digging deeper holes. And not just in La Repentir.

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