Dear Editor,

Well marning neighba. Is me, good neighba Loo. How yu all doing? Yu know we Guyanese get good manners. We belang to a land that does grow a lot of greens and fruits and so we like to get up early in de marning before sun rise. If yu live in de country side, yu gon hear dem cows mooing. De fowl cocks crowing. Dem birds chirping. Dats what the Diaspora miss and they want to enjoy that sweetness once more especially when the cold get to them.

On Sunday marning we like to go to church and put on we Sunday best. Talk about dat, how yu like how dem bais and gals dress to kill when they went to Washington? Man, dey prapa look sharp. Dey all look like millionaires to go to the white man country to see black people to tell them dat de Guyana Government keeping down the black people in poverty. But, non of dem look like any pauper! Now what impression dat gon give the people?

Bai, I tell yu, Guyanese wouldn’t stop talking about de cricket and dat visit for a long time to come. Especially when dey take dem drinks, all dey discussing is cricket and politics. Religion take a back seat these days. Now dat de 50-over World Cup Cricket start, dem bais vex that de West Indies get knock out before de series start. Dats a big big shame!
But is more shame we bring pon we Guyanese people when we return from that Washington trip. We walk with plenty papers to present but de people prefer to see proof. Now dats how we get clean bowled because we thought dat the people is we kit and kin and looking like we so they gon buy wholesale what we say and side with we. But all a we fell shart…nobady walk with any proof because….we don’t have any!

When we talk about racism, de people ask why de Guyana Government employ more Afro Guyanese in de public service and military force? Bai, we leff wid we mouth wide open!
Then we talk about discrimination. The people ask why we all shut down de sugar estates and fired de 2,000 Amerindian leaders? If yu cut we, yu wouldn’t find blood!
When we mention apartheid, dem laugh and say yu all representing Guyana and not Ghana! We face turn white yu gon think we rub Ponds cream.
We tried to talk about equality. Dem shut we down so fast. Dey say Aunty Sarah tell dem all about how de Govment share out nuff nuff money all over de country fu plenty things and Harry Ram to Harry Right thank dem.

We start to talk about democracy. The people said that they know everything about de rigging and who get sanction. They ask we to spell hypocrisy. All a we look at each other and start to stammer and de people said case close and to move on to de next grievance.

Patto raise he hand. The people said forget it. Dey ask who does do de work in the public service. We said how is we people. Dey said there you go. Yu people take one year to make a scratch on any paper so how yu expect de system to be up to date. We regret Patto raise he hand. I thought he was asking for time out.
After dat, the people from the IDPADA – Guyana, get scared to ask any question or say anything. Dem embarrassed de people gon laugh dem.
Then de people turn around and ask we why Burke don’t go home and clear he name if he innocent? Bai, de man get up and do a B line so fast. Ah believe he get a sudden belly wok, because he turn to me and ask me for the loo.

De people didn’t stop there. Dem ask the Professor if he like Guyana so much, why he don’t go home and teach there. De man said how he know politricks and not politics.
At the end, it look like de people more well informed and prepared than we. We look like ‘cent ice.’ More so, since all the big stars we thought we will see, dem hide from we.
To make matters worse was when the liar mek we look like we don’t have head for figures. One couldn’t divide and now this one can’t multiply. If yu give any common entrance student to convert money, yu gon see how fast dey gon do it and mentally too. Talk about mental laziness! No wonder we always bankrupting the country when we in power. If yu don’t know mathematics then don’t try any fancy antics.

Now to rub salt in de wound, whilst we trying to convince dem people how we people getting bad treatment from de govment, guess what happen? We people in Linden hugging up Bharat and posing for picture and welcome de man like he is dey savior.

After dat, we had to fly back home right away with we tail yu know where. Now this bowl I have come back more empty than before. Bai, I tell yu, we people really know how to waste other people time and money. The lil money we had save up, all gone.
I better run before dem reporters catch me. I gon see yu all later.

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall