When a car change turn crime scene

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When a car change turn crime scene

Jan 04, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh if you blink too fast these days, you might accidentally launder money without even knowing you had any. Dem Boys nearly spill we tea when dem hear that the simple, time-honoured Guyanese tradition of selling or transferring a motor car now apparently flirting with the long arm of anti-money laundering law. Imagine that. You sell yuh old Corolla and next thing you know you feel like Pablo Escobar accountant.

As far as dem boys know, changing ownership of a vehicle was always one of the few things in this country that actually worked. You fill out a form, show yuh agreement of sale, pay a small fee have the vehicle engine and chassis number verified and ten minutes later—voilà—new owner, new registration, no drama.

Plenty people used to boast that transferring a car faster than renewing a driver’s licence was proof Guyana still had hope.

Now we turning a simple process into a legal maze. We now hearing whispers about anti-money laundering requirements hovering over the process like a bad jumbie. Dem boys seh since when a man selling he pick-up to pay school fees become a financial crime? Since when a woman transferring a car to she daughter turn into an international banking risk?

Yes, dem boys understand big money got dirty ways, and yes, money laundering is a serious thing. But common sense must still have a seat at the table. Because if selling a car for a few million dollars or transferring a car to a relative now requires the same suspicion as wiring funds to an offshore haven, something gone off track.

People starting to ask questions, and dem boys asking too. Is this really about protecting the system, or is it another case of using a sledgehammer to crack a mauby seed? Is this prudent oversight—or a witch hunt where every ordinary citizen suddenly feel like a suspect?

Dem boys seh all we know is this: if buying and selling a car now need anti-money laundering vigilance, then next thing dem might want AML clearance to sell a bicycle. And if that happen, plenty people gon be walking.

Talk half. Leff half.

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One thought on “When a car change turn crime scene”

Sasman January 4, 2026 at 8:30 pm

When you walk in the crowds, you can smell blood. I am scared to walk in crowds now, because soon I will be tasting blood. People are just fed up. This nation will burst open soon.

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