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Guyana money nah looking safe in the U.S.
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh when yuh keeping yuh lil savings, you don’t hide it under a mattress in a house that does ketch fire every other week. Is common sense. But apparently common sense nah fashionable again.
Dem boys watching how the Donald Trump administration does wake up one morning and quarrel with half the planet before breakfast. One day tariff, next day sanction, next day somebody asset freeze.
And dem boys asking a simple question: if man could seize people green card so fast, wha stopping he from seizing we reserves or oil money? Guyana Natural Resource Fund sitting cosy overseas like it on extended vacation. But if it parked in the United States and things get more “interesting,” we might wake up one morning and hear, “Breaking News: US says Guyana’s assets secured for safekeeping.” Safekeeping is a nice word. It does mean “is we own it now.”
Dem boys seh we small, but we oil big. And when big money start to look like loose change to unpredictable people, is best yuh don’t leave it on the table. Today dem picking fight with Iran. Tomorrow is Syria. Next week is Lebanon. Is like a man walking through the village kicking every yard gate and then acting surprise when bottle start flying.
And leh we talk plain: America ain’t feeling too safe these days. Between immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and foreign policy that read like action movie script, some Guyanese over there sleeping with one eye open and suitcase half-pack. When dem boys hear “operation,” dem don’t know if is medical procedure or military adventure.
Now imagine we oil reserves sitting in the same neighbourhood. Oil is not pepper sauce; yuh can’t just dash it in yuh handbag and run. If big uncle decide he need it for “strategic purposes,” we going get long explanation and short cheque.
Dem boys seh patriotism is good, but prudence better. If a friend does gamble every night and quarrel every morning, you don’t hand he yuh life savings to “hold fuh yuh.” You tell he, “Bai, leh me keep me own lil thing.”
Because in this world, when elephant start dancing, is the grass that does get flatten. And dem boys ain’t volunteering Guyana fuh be no lawn.
Talk half. Leff half.
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This is a good point you brought up.
Why Guyana Government dumped all that OIL money in US Federal Bank is
anyone’s guess. It’s not the interest. They could have invested some in
US Federal Bonds, Stock Market.
I remembered reading about INDIA’S GOVERNMENT a couple years back.
They removed all their GOLD held in England, elsewhere for safe-keeping,
to INDIA’S CENTRAL BANK. I think they thought their Gold was safer in
their Central Bank in INDIA.