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Let dem apply fuh visa
Dem Boys Seh…
(Kaieteur News) – Fellow readers, let we take a quiet stroll down memory lane. Back before them oil money start flow and make Guyana’s bank account fatter than a minister’s wedding guest list. Back when we was known for rum, rice, and mosquitoes.
Dem boys remember those days clearly. Countries used to treat Guyana like a leper with bad breath. They kept dem distance so far, you would think we had plague. Oh, but wait! One bright spark somewhere did say, “We must appoint an Ambassador to Guyana.”
Everybody clap? Nah. Because dem appoint de man and base he in Barbados. Barbados, nuh! De man never set foot on Guyana soil, except to present de credentials. He was an Ambassador in absentia, like a ghost with a diplomatic passport. Dem call it non-resident ambassador.
But soon as them first drop of black gold tickle the Exxon pipe? Hallelujah! De same man now pack he bags, brush off he suit, and land at Cheddi Jagan like he discover us on a map the night before. Now he want embassy. Now he want to shake hands and talk about “long-standing relations.”
Dem boys feel we need to teach these Johnny-come-latelies a lesson in selective memory. Since they loved distance so much, let we reintroduce the concept. We should announce to the world: “Any country that did not know we existed before oil must now apply for a visa to set up embassy.”
Make them fill out forms in triplicate. Make them show proof of genuine interest. Make them sit in a queue at their own embassy – oh wait, they don’t have one yet! Sweet irony.
Every man Jack with a flag pin is now running here like we holding a clearance sale. But dem boys remember. We have long memory and short patience.
Let them apply for visa. Let them know what it feels like to be a country nobody did know. Is only fair. Dem boys seh so.
Talk half. Leff half.
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I remembered those days when Guyanese traveling to Barbados, Trinidad
looking for work and scorned upon as “beggars”, during the dark days of
Guyanese struggling. Thousands were able to migrate to Canada, USA, England
for greener pastures where many remained for the last 50 plus years.
Guyana’s magnet (black gold) now attracting all those “bad boys” Caribbean
countries.
Irfan Ali was not born then to experience the mass migration, difficult, hard
days. Now, he is playing FATHER CHIRSTMAS to everyone, everywhere.