Rent Sky-High, But Belly Still Low

May 22, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys was taking a lime down by de corner de other day, when one man pull out his phone and start cussing. “Look nah,” he say, holding the screen like it bite him. “Two-bedroom, furnished apartment, two hundred and forty thousand a month. And it not including light and water.”

Well, the whole corner start to rock with laughter. Two hundred and forty thousand? Dem boys remember when dat kinda money used to be a manager salary, not a rent receipt.

But then de seriousness set in. Dem boys start to calculate: if you paying $240,000 for roof over your head, and you still have to buy food, pay transport, send children to school, and occasionally buy a toothpaste, what exactly you eating? The answer is sky pie and doughnut centres. Because after rent, you ain’t got money for not even a bottle of water.

Unless, of course, you is one of those clientele dat dem boys hear about. The ones with the fancy job titles and the SUVs that never see a pothole. For them, $240,000 is just a little something-something. Deh paying dat and still buying imported cheese and flying to Trinidad for the weekend. Deh gat companies paying dat sort of money for dem executives. Except dis is not an executive-styled suite.

But what about de poor man? De one who driving bus or sweeping office or selling juice on carts in the sun? He lucky if he find a two-bedroom unfurnished for $150,000. And dat place probably have a bathroom window that don’t close and a landlord who believe “maintenance” is a foreign word. He paying more than his pay just to sleep near his work, because if he move out to somewhere cheap, he spending de other half on fare.

So dem boys not vex with de high-rent people. Let dem enjoy their marble countertop and their keyless entry. But dem boys vex with de system dat forget dat a man still have to eat after he pay de landlord. And these days, eating looking more like a luxury than a two-bedroom.

As dem boys always say: house is for living, not just for surviving. But try telling dat to de rent bill. It don’t have ears. Only a due date.

Talk half. Leff half.

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