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Nip it in the bud!
Dem Boys Seh…
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh in Guyana if yuh allow people fuh sell pun de reserves, by month-end dem applying for squatters’ rights, opening a cook-shop and asking GPL for meter. That is why government got to learn that certain things got to be nip in de bud before dem spread faster than rumours that flour price going up.
Look at de tint business. Last year, when one or two man start putting lil dark shade pun dem car window, authorities shoulda stop it quick-quick. But no. Everybody pretend not to notice until some vehicles get so much tint that de only thing visible inside was de air freshener swinging like pendulum. Some car dark enough to qualify for solar eclipse warning. Yuh coulda park next to one at midday and still feel like nighttime.
And because government let it slide, people start behaving like tinting was one of de fundamental rights and freedoms protected by the constitution. Tint shops start to pop up all over de place, including pun government reserve. In Guyana once somebody put down two concrete blocks and one rusty container, dem does start talking about “my establishment” and “private property.”
Same thing with dese caravans and roadside vending. Government clear out some from near de Providence Stadium and everybody think order restore. But caravans now creeping back slow-slow like auntie visiting fuh two days and staying six months. A whole set appearing in de afternoons outside de big hotel. De place now looking like like a small border town complete with fried chicken and barbeque.
Is de same thing happening at Diamond where people start occupying de reserve on de public road and alongside de road leading into the entrance. Now some caravans spreading along de East Coast Public Road too. If government ain’t careful, by next year somebody gon applying for cash grant with the following address: “Lot 24, Behind De Blue Caravan Opposite De Coconut Vendor.”
Dem boys seh Guyanese people creative when it comes to stretching rules. Tell somebody don’t build pun reserve and dem gon build half pun reserve and half pun de road. Tell dem no vending and dem gon say technically dem only “temporarily displaying merchandise in an entrepreneurial format.”
Small problems got to be stopped early. Because once people get comfortable, every attempt to restore order suddenly becomes “an attack pun poor people” and “de single parents.” Government then got to pass law and issue regulations just to undo what shoulda been prevented from de beginning.
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