Squatters, sympathy and selective outrage

Mar 19, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh in Guyana we got a special kind of fairness. One that only show up when it feel like it.

Now leh we talk plain. When government decide fuh clear squatters from public land, is like somebody ring a big bell. All of a sudden, everybody become human rights expert. “Discrimination!” “Heartless!” Dem asking, “What about the poor single mother?” Dem boys seh is tears, cries and condemnation like rain in May.

But hold on nah. Dem same squatters didn’t drop from the sky like ripe mango. Dem boys want know: where dem people used to live before? Wha happen to that place? Why dem can’t go back? Is like dem questions got a curfew. Nobody asking dem.

Instead, government get lash left, right and centre… for doing wha the law say it must do.

Now leh we flip the script.

When a private landowner go to court, get a legal order, and move squatters off de land. Silence! Nobody ain’t blaming the private landowners. Nobody ain’t asking him or her for chance for the squatters. Guess who they asking? You guessed right. The government!

After the private owner do exactly what the law allow, dem same people who was quiet like church mouse now turn around and seh, “Government must step in and help!”

Dem boys seh wait… so when government act, it wicked. When private people act, government must rescue?

Is like blaming the referee, the player, and still asking the groundsman to score the goal.

And dem single mother argument—every time like clockwork. Dem boys seh nothing wrong with sympathy, but it can’t be a free pass fuh breaking law. If that was the case, half the country woulda build house pon seawall and call it “hardship housing scheme.”

At the end of the day, law is law. It can’t be soft like pholourie one day and hard like cassava bread the next.

Dem boys seh Guyana got plenty problems but consistency might be the biggest missing piece.

Talk half. Leff half.

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