Camera shy drivers still got plenty nerve

Jan 16, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh the government finally decide to open one eye and install cameras to catch dem motorists who feel the road is a chessboard and dem is grandmaster. You know dem ones: two-lane road but somehow three lanes appear like magic, and undertaking become a national sport. Click-click, ticket print, everybody happy. Or so we thought.

Because, as usual, Guyanese drivers quick to learn. Is not that dem stop driving bad, you know. Heaven forbid. Dem just start driving strategically. Once dem see a camera pole, is sudden righteousness. Seatbelt on, indicator flashing like Christmas tree, speed drop to funeral pace. But the moment dem pass the camera? Boom! Back to Formula One.

So now what we got is a kind of traffic hide-and-seek. Drivers memorise camera locations better than dem children exam timetable. “Camera deh yah? Nah man, leh we behave.” Two hundred metres down the road, where the camera ain’t reach yet, is undertaking Olympics. Gold medal guaranteed.

On the East Coast, where camera scarce like punctual minibuses, undertaking still flourishing. You driving nice-nice in your lane and suddenly somebody appear on your left like apparition. Heroes Highway? Same thing. Big, wide, beautiful road and still people creating imaginary lanes like dem planning housing scheme. Mandela Avenue? Especially in front of the National Gymnasium, drivers creating third lane and have dem cyclists trembling fuh dem life.

Dem boys seh is this foolishness of third lane and undertaking causing half the congestion. When everybody trying to squeeze, jump, undertake and invent lanes, traffic does lock up faster than payday at the bank. One bad move and everybody paying for it—from the minibus man to the poor soul late for work.

So, what now? Cameras alone ain’t cutting it. Because drivers ain’t reforming; dem just relocating bad behaviour. Is like chasing ants—you block one hole, dem pop up somewhere else.

Authorities got two choices: more cameras, or real live ranks standing where the madness still happening. Nothing straightens spine faster than seeing a police cap and a notebook. Cameras scare you later. Ranks embarrass you right now.

Until then, dem boys seh expect more third lanes, more undertaking, and more drivers behaving good only when Big Brother watching. And the road? The road still suffering.

Talk half. Leff half.

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