Dear Editor,

Well, how yu all doing na? Yu all see what Maduro get he soldier bais doing? De man trying all sorts of thing to gain attraction, from he moustache to he uniform and now, he soldiers busy rumbling and rambling to show he doing something so that he can influence he people to vote for him next year.

But de senor is no different from de Kabaka. Both a dem got one ting in common, that is to take control of de country at any cost so that they can wield power. All dem generals believe dem big, bad and brave. Dem live like kings in palaces while dem poor people braking dem back to live. Yu see what happen to Saddam?

While de Kabaka mek hundreds of thousands of people flee Guyana, many ended up in Venezuela, Maduro mek millions flee from he country, many ended up in Guyana. Both of dem like dictatorship and they both run dem country into ruin. Under both of dem, dem supermarket shelves look empty. People out of jobs, money dry up and dem countries can’t develop no more. Both of dem try nationalization but every ting back fire. Foreign currency become foreign. Both Generals see dem foreigners pack up and run and then both make dem army buddies into administrators.

Back in de ancient county, Berbice getting more modern every time de Big Guy visit de people on his regular meet de people tour. I tell yu, de man giving we nuff nuff headace. We can’t keep up wid he pace so we had to slack up wid de race. De more yu try to ketch he, de more de guy increase de distance. By de time 2025 come around, we gon be no where around de ground with we blow blow sound! I tell yu, dis man priceless and restless in de place where we invest less. Bai, I tell yu all, we can’t fool dem people like we did in 2015. JanJat better stay far like he padna.
No wander de people don’t want see we fo noting, but dem hug up and kiss up and dance up and laugh up wid de Pressy. Pressy mek dem people fall all over him and now dem worship de man and de ground he walk pon and dem can’t remove dem smile. De man leff Baracara and dem people still rejoicing.

Is like Christmas Fada come early dis year. De Ranger never had it so good. As a matter of fact, dat man didn’t know what it means to bond wid de people. Dem believe is okay to mek one two visits during election time, mek lots of promise and believe dat de people gon buy everything dey say. Dis time time na lang time and de Govment really on top of de game.

Yu see how all dis he say and she say story turning out to be. Dese days, yu don’t know where to look and read for the news if yu really want to know de truth. Who aint hiding half of de story, turn de other half de other way around. De Audit story with de US$214M hot more than tiger teeth pepper. Yu see how people does get blame fu noting? Look how dat Troy story playing out. Is who been in powa when dem let de horse out of de stable? Now we want somebody else to close de door when it too late. As usual, we can’t clean we own mess.

Now de poor govment get blame fu de high prices of greens and vegetables and fruits in de market. But is dem middlemen and dem sellers who cockroach eat out dem conscience is de real culprits. Dem vendors know dat de Navratri season start so all dem thousands of people who staying away from fish and meat are forced to buy the products at exorbitant prices. Imagine, wan bigan fu $500 and pine now fetching $1,000. Yu get some people really greedy and gon take full advantage of de situation.

But is a culture ting. Don’t put all de blame on those people. Is we who teach dem to be so. When ever we in powa, all we do is grab what we can put we hands on and don’t think or care about de other person. As lang as we packet full, we alright. Other people got to look out for demselves. And right now I got dis bowl and no body looking to put anything inside. Is a touch of we own medicine. Do fo do na obeya. I now see how much we hut some people feelings wid we barefaceness. I like de parsad but I can’t wear de kurta like Pressy and go visit de mandir. I feel too guilty. Later banna, I got to make up me Christmas list fu Fada Christmas. But I scared of de Big Guy question, “Loo, have yu been a good boy?”

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall.