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Mar 21, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh…

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh things get real interesting pon de road these days. It use to be simple: when you see red and blue lights flashing, you move aside because is police or some real emergency. Now? Well, now is like every second man discover he got “urgent business” and a blue and red lights on his vehicle’s grill.

Dem boys seh is like a new fashion statement. Some people buying rims, some tinting glass dark-dark, and some installing flashing lights pon de grill.

You driving along, minding yuh business, sweating in de line, and suddenly—flash flash! You got to make a quick decision. Move to de side and hope is real police, or hold yuh lane and risk upsetting somebody who feel he more important than de rest of humanity.

Dem boys seh if you watch close, some of these “emergency vehicles” does be in a terrible hurry—until they clear the traffic jam and then all the emergency disappear faster than free food at a wake. Lights off, speed normal, mission accomplished. Emergency over… until tomorrow morning same time.

And leh we nah pretend—people whispering. Dem saying is not only lawmen with these lights. Some big, big businessman apparently decide that traffic is a problem reserved for small people. Not dem. Why wait in line when you could just but some red and blue lights and pretend you is police or fire service or ambulance?

Dis is why dem boys seh is time fuh a lil undercover work. Leh some plainclothes ranks go out deh, write down numbers of all dem unmarked vehicles dat flashing red and blue lights, and find out who really entitled to play ambulance-police-fire-service all in one. Because right now, the road looking like a Christmas tree parade with attitude.

At this rate, dem boys seh soon everybody gon have lights. And when that happen, nobody nah gon move fuh nobody—because if everybody important, then nobody important.

And then, irony of all ironies, we gon all be stuck right back in the same traffic… just flashing at each other.

Talk half. Leff half.

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