A knife, ice pick or jukka does not settle an argument

Aug 09, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh…

(Kaieteur News) – Long time, if de police ketch yuh walking down de road wid a cutlass showing, dem used to seize it quick, quick. Sharp object in public? Explain yuhself. Knife in yuh waist? Trouble. Ice pick in yuh pocket? Better have a very good reason.

Dem boys seh back then, police understand one simple principle: prevention better than cure. If yuh stop de weapon before de quarrel, yuh might stop de funeral after.

But things change. Today, people apparently could walk around wid knives, ice picks, Rambo blades and all kinda other instruments capable of turning a simple disagreement into a murder. And de disturbing question is not only why people carrying these weapons, but how easy it seems to be to get one when tempers flare.

Last Friday, two persons were reportedly stabbed to death on Water Street, in front of Bounty Supermarket. Two lives gone. And once again, we are left asking how a quarrel that might otherwise have ended with cussing, pushing or a fistfight ended with two bodies.

Where de weapon come from? Because apparently de knife does have GPS.

Man could be walking through town empty-handed, get into an argument, and five minutes later — presto! — blade appear. Either he was carrying it all along or he know exactly where to find one.

And that is the problem. Dangerous weapons should not be as easy to obtain as a coconut vendor’s mauby.

Yet dem boys hearing that big knives and Rambo-style blades could be openly sold on pavements. If that is happening, then we should not wait until somebody get stabbed before asking questions.

De hospital should not be the first place where society discovers that weapons are circulating. And schoolchildren being robbed at knife point should be warning enough. When a blade becomes part of the everyday wardrobe, something seriously wrong with the society.

Dem boys seh Guyana reaching the stage where every argument apparently coming with a hardware option.

Man quarrel over money — knife.

Woman — knife.

Parking space — knife.

Somebody look at yuh wrong — “Wait, leh me find something.”

We cannot normalise people walking around armed and then express shock when a dispute becomes deadly. A knife does not settle an argument. It settle somebody’s life. And by then, prevention done pack up and go home.

Talk half. Leff half.

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