Dear Editor,

HELLO, hello, is me Loo. Any bady out there hearing me? Or, all yu pretending na fuh hear me? All yu foget me already or what? I is the same guy facing the frontline fire for all yu every day; never mind we don’t see eye to eye. Yu know, Naggi and Janjat made things difficult fo we.
Dey corrupt the Ranger’s mind and he get all mixed up not knowing who to please. But is true, dem two did the dirty job for we and mek we win in 2015. Dem pull all de tricks from the bag and prapa fool dem Berbicians. But it worked.

Then, dem tink dey been tick with de Ranger but de man treated dem with a lang spoon. Naggi used to drive around like a big zinc with he siren blaring so loud, de noise mek yu deff and yu had to jump out of the way before de car sway.
Today, instead of turning to siren, I hear de man tun to “Sai Ram.” But is good, is not late. De man learn his lesson and he making amend now. He know how to lie low. The rest of we need to follow him.

All yu know, lies don’t pay. But people like we got to lie in order to stay in this job especially when yu have people out there who yu can fool easily. Dis job paying off bai. This is life in Georgetown, better than London.

All we have to do is tell lies, mek up stories and bad talk everything the Government do. Is dat easy. Yu think we really want to do any hard work? No man, we like everything de easy way.
Bai, I can tell yu, I feel bad for dem sugar workers but I had to stifle me conscience and help put dem and dem family on de bread line.
Imagine, 42,000 people got affected, some tie dem waist to make ends meet, some starving themselves just to feed dem children, who ain’t going crazy kill themselves, families bruk up, nuff a dem children couldn’t go to school while a lot of dem didn’t write dem exams.

But yu think dem two harkatie care? Dem laugh dem belly full and turn round and say, “is good fu dem. Let dem suffer now. Dem deserve dat because dey support Cheddi.”
Now Janjat with he two face trying to make a case but all he do is to cause dem poor sugar workers more trouble. But let me tell yu, one day things gon back fire.
Is not a good ting to do wrang. We gon have to pay for we mistakes and sins. Take my stupid advise, try to do good and help people, don’t hurt dem. Plenty of we go to church but, in the night, why yu think we can’t sleep?

Last week I tell yu about dis Bowl. Well, yu remember how de bais from the Islands used to laugh we.
But watch what happening now today. Is a different scenario. Dem used to say Bharat going around with a begging bowl fu de country. Mind yu, is we who made the mess.
But is that same man who saved we bacon and pull we out of de mess, and, when dey left in 2015, was a healthy bank account we tek over with. De man tek we out of bankruptcy from 1992 and leff we in good standing in 2015. And watch what we did with we five years!
But yu know we track record, we only know how to bruk and not to mek. Dey say is we DNA. Don’t look far, dat is de Burnham magic we blessed with. Anything we touch, yu know what will follow. So, people must not look surprised or blame we. Is a can’t help situation.
And if ever we get another chance, Gawd help all yu, is the same six to nine gon happen. Guyanese say, “waste not, want not.”
With all we brain box, we put de country in a worse predicament when we got booted out in 2020. Dats why the International community laughing we and mek sure dat dey don’t back riggers and schemers like we anymore.

Now back to this bowl. No, is not the Super Bowl. Tings ruff bai. I fall in wan big hole and ah can’t blame anybody but meself. I know de right thing cause I is a Sunday school bai but I still do de rang ting because my mentors dem teach me so and I can’t turn me back pun dem. I see where ah going but I had no choice.
I stranded pun no man’s land wid everybody defecting from me wid me big mouth and fowl language wa making mo enemy dan friends. Me hand soil and preventing me from shaking hands with the right people.

But look how everybody want shake the Big Guy hand when he touched down in America, even Jeffries and all de rest from the Black Congressional Caucus! Now I feeling bad and I start to question me self. Is what really we thinking, saying and doing?
Weight is a heavy load but this bowl still light. I got to make some more rounds. I can’t understand how I have to do this jab when we have them two big wigs in America… Later na, we gon gaff some more…

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall.