De small fish might be swimming in deep waters

Jun 08, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News

Dem Boys Seh…

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh de newest idea in town is a shiny new community fish pond. Not just any fish pond, mind yuh. This one getting plenty water, plenty feed and plenty taxpayers’ money to make sure de fish grow fat and happy.

Now, nobody against helping small fry. Every big fish start off as a lil guppy. If a fisherman need help buying a net or a farmer need a few dollars to buy seed, that is good thing. Dem boys seh everybody want people to prosper.

But some people scratching dem head over de name of de pond.

If de main purpose is to help small fry swim, why call it de Great National Ocean Project? Is like opening a chicken shop and calling it an international wildlife reserve. De title sounding bigger than de mission.

Then come de next worry.

De pond designed in a way where fish could borrow bait without putting much on de line. Now, in a perfect world, every fish would return what it borrow. But Guyana ain’t perfect and neither is anywhere else.

Dem boys seh if enough fish decide that repayment is optional, de pond could soon start looking like a dry trench in August.

And that is where imagination start running wild.

People wondering if one day de caretaker might announce that maintaining de pond too expensive. De water bill too high. De feed cost too much. De fish not cooperating.

Then suddenly a notice appear:

“Special Opportunity! Slightly used national pond available for new ownership.”

Dem boys seh they remember seeing similar things before. De ending always interesting.

Of course, nobody saying that is what will happen. People merely discussing possibilities, same way people discuss whether rain clouds might bring rain. Nobody can blame a man for carrying an umbrella whenever he see cloud. But it don’t mean rain will fall.

Still, de authorities should understand why citizens asking questions before de first bucket of water even reach de pond. Trust is like fish scales. Easy to knock off and hard to put back on.

So dem boys seh watch dis fish pond closely. Make sure de rules strong enough that taxpayers don’t wake up one morning to discover that de fish gone, de water gone, and somehow de pond belonging to some friend of somebody.

Talk half. Leff half…

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