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Mar 14, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana got more defence lawyers now than the whole of the law school could ever produce. And the funny thing is none of them ever study law. All they got is loud voice and plenty confidence.

You ever notice when police trying to arrest somebody, the whole neighbourhood suddenly turn into a courtroom? The police grab a man and before the handcuff even click, somebody from the back start holler: “Wha the man do? The man ain’t do nothing!”

Now dem boys always wonder how the crowd does know the man innocent so fast. The police just reach on the scene two minutes and already the case done investigate, prosecute and dismiss right there on the roadside.

One fella seh Guyana got a special legal system now. It call Roadside Court of Public Opinion.

The procedure simple. Police show up to arrest somebody and twenty self-appointed attorneys appear from behind fence, shop counter and rum shop bench. One shouting legal advice, another filming, and one auntie waving she hand like she presiding over the trial.

“Leave the man! The man ain’t do nothing!”

Dem boys seh if the man really ain’t do nothing, then going to the station shouldn’t be no problem. The police station ain’t a hole where people disappear forever. It is a place where questions does get answer. But nowadays some people behaving like if police say “come to the station” is the same thing like exile to Devil’s Island.

The real problem is the resistance. Some people pushing, shoving, even trying to cuff the police back. Imagine that. A man getting arrest and suddenly decide he also want to conduct a little arrest of he own.

One policeman tell dem boys that half the time the biggest challenge ain’t even the suspect. Is the spectators. Everybody feel they must participate in the arrest like it is a community sport.

If shouting could stop crime, Guyana would be the safest place in the hemisphere.

Dem boys seh the next thing the police might have to do is carry extra handcuffs — not just for the suspect, but for the ten public defenders who does appear from nowhere.

Because in Guyana, once the police reach, the real crowd control start.

Talk half. Leff half

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