Latest update September 4th, 2026 10:24 AM
We does need a steady reminder!
(Kaieteur News) – Guyana is a country where people does need reminder fuh almost everything. Yuh could give a man a library book today and by tomorrow morning he forget that he borrow it. De library got to send him a letter stating,: “Boss, yuh book overdue.”
Same thing with bills. Light bill due? Reminder. Water bill due? Reminder. Internet bill? Reminder. Cable bill? Reminder. Phone bill? Reminder. If dem companies stop sending reminders, some people would wake up one morning and discover that electricity is not a human right after all.
Drivers worse yet. Dem need reminder when vehicle insurance expiring. Reminder when fitness expiring. Reminder when road licence expiring. If dem driver’s licence or boat licence getting close to expiration, Government practically got to send a messenger, blow a horn and possibly hire a brass band.
But funny enough, there are certain dates nobody in Guyana needs a reminder for. Visa interview date? Nobody forget. That date does live in people head like permanent resident.
Cash grant sharing out? No reminder needed. People does know the exact date, time, location and sometimes even what colour shirt the Minister wearing.
Payday? Please!
Before the salary money even reach the bank account, people already standing up in front of the ATM. Some does reach there so early that ATM itself probably watching the clock and saying, “This man again?”
But let a driver’s licence expire and suddenly everybody develops memory loss. “Officer, me ain’t know it expire.”
“How you didn’t know?”
“Nobody remind me.”
Boat licence expire? Same story. “Me didn’t get no reminder.”
Yet if somebody mention that a visa interview is next Thursday at 9:00 a.m., he know the date, the time, the address, the interviewer’s name and probably what the interviewer had for breakfast.
Dem Boys believe Guyanese memory does operate on a very sophisticated system.
It automatically deletes bills, licences and obligations—but stores anything involving money, migration or free cash in permanent memory.
So maybe Government should stop sending reminders for everything. Instead, put one big notice everywhere:
“REMINDER: Anything involving you getting money—you will remember. Anything involving you paying money—you will forget.”
Now that is one reminder nobody in Guyana will ever need.
Talk half. Leff half.
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