Dear Editor,

Well howdy neighba! Naw, is not Aunty Comsee, is me, Loo. Yu all prapa enjoy the cricket, eh? The Warriors finally cross over the line and beco me the bride and not the bridesmaid. We bais play lovely cricket and finally mek we proud. Never mind we hire a lot of bais ouside to play fu we. Yu see how all a we band together to support we team? Man, is a lang time since Providence didn’t light up so bright like Bourda when dem ole timers use to lick de ball and bowl like lightning. Dat bai Bacchus used to fly like a hawk and save the ball from going to the boundary. Yu ain’t know which side the ball gon shoot through when Croft bowling. Kanhai used to fall on his back and hook de ball fu four. And when Lloyd connect with he heavy duty bat, no man move. But dem golden days over and dem young bais take over. We gat to give dem a chance to shine and prove dem metal.

Pressy right not to give we a holiday. Mind yu, we already have a holiday this same week. The man said is a lot of work to be done and he right yu know. Yu can’t blame the Big Guy. Remember when we was in the opposition in 2011 and we had we wan seat majority how we block all the government’s program? We de bad fu days then. The poor government didn’t get to invest the money and build the country. From the bridge to the Amalia Fall, we stop everything. Now we regret what we did. Dem same projects could have finished and de people could a enjoy nuff ting. The electricity bill could have been smaller now. The transportation could have ease up over de river. We lass a lot of time and now the government got to work with full speed.

Again from 2015 to 2020, we mek a big mess of everyting. We pad we own pockets and forget about de small man. De good life is what the big bais and girls used to enjoy. Nat one darn ting we did to improve de lives of Guyanese. But we prapa sport, give out land to de wrang people, break de bank, run de treasury dry, mek a lot of bad deals, cover up corruption, mismanage a lot of things, and, worse yet, sign the worst oil agreement in de whole world! Yu know how much money we squander? Now the country stuck with a bad agreement and we want de now government to clean up we mess. So again, we lass a lot of time and money and now de government got to work overtime and shiff gear in order to catch up with we down time and we lackadaisical attitude.

But put aside everything, de minute we cross de gate and go in de cricket ground, we forget who is who and put aside everything and only get one thing on we mind….cricket , lovely cricket. We come together as one to back we side and rally behind we bais, cheer dem and encourage dem. Pressy said de right ting, “One Guyana.” Dats how it should be all de time, whether on de field or off de field, whether inside de ground or outside de ground, whether is Christmas, Holi or Eid, whether is carnival, ole year’s night or a birthday party, we all is one big family because this land is our land and we all have we blood, sweat and tears falling on it.

Is not a nice ting when some of we try to deliberately divide this nation for we own selfish reason. Man, look how we enjoy we self over the cricket season and not only de place light up with fireworks but we eyes light up with joy and pride. Dem outside don’t know what it means to live together as Guyanese brother and sister and reap the benefits of our mother land. Dey only talking wrang tings and know good how to bad talk those who trying to do good fu de country. Tings don’t happen overnight and it gon take time fu tings to get really better.
So let dis win from de cricket teach all a we a good lesson, to support each other, don’t back bite one another, don’t pull dem anybody and don’t lie and hide anything from anybody like how we does hide de ball. Le we play fair and straight and work as a team. Remember Pressy say is wan Guyana.
A gat more gaff and ghaan to give but dis bowl a got need some dhaan! A gat to run. We gon ketch up.

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall