Some people gat it hard!

May 19, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh some people in high office really believe everybody shopping with trolley these days. Is like dem think every citizen walking in supermarket pushing cart with imported cheese, almond milk and six kinds of cereal while arguing over which olive oil healthier.

Meanwhile, down in de real world, people stretching dollar till it crying for mercy.

Some leaders would faint dead if dem ever had to stand up by de corner shop and hear a customer say, “Gimme one onion, bai… no, leh me see de smaller one.” Then is one garlic, quarter pound cheese, one potato, half pound sugar, one lb salt bag and one pound chicken to mek soup stretch till tomorrow.

And yes, some people buying one tennis roll. One.

Not because dem on diet. Not because dem trying new health programme. But because one tennis roll is all de budget could manage.

Yet people laughing.

Dem boys seh some people ain’t understand that we have many persons surviving day to day. Breakfast money does depend on whether de child father send a lil something. Lunch does depend on whether granny pension land yet. Dinner does depend on whether de shopkeeper willing to “write it down till month-end.”

That is why dem lil corner shops still surviving despite all dem giant supermarkets with air conditioning cold enough to preserve polar bears. Dem small shops know de struggle. Supermarket can’t sell you quarter pound cheese and trust you till Friday. But de neighbourhood shopkeeper can.

Dem boys seh some big people should try living one week like de poor man. Leh dem go in a shop with $1,500 and try figure out how to buy breakfast, lunch and dinner for four people. Leh dem calculate whether dem buying onions or eggs this week because both together looking too ambitious.

Then maybe dem would stop mocking poor people habits. Because when somebody buying one tennis roll, that ain’t comedy. That is economics. Guyana style.

Talk half. Leff half.

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