Dear Editor,

A big shout out to yu all goodly and Godly people. A hear dem turkey chuckling and cackling a lot and dem gobbling how dem glad dem living in Guyana and not in de US. Nowadays, yu can’t even afford to buy chicken, much less turkey.

De news said 46 million turkeys are killed around dis time of the year. Some 270 turkeys are slaughtered around the world in a year. Dem overseas Guyanese giving thanks fo plenty things. I hope dem rememba dis bowl I holding when dey having dem Thanksgiving dinner is not fo de bones!
Plenty people vex when we had we General Council meeting. Dem say we said nuff nuff things about nothing and nothing about plenty things. Yu know yu can never satisfy Guyanese people. Dem say we draw rings around de circle and we involve in window dressing.

But Christmas dey right around de corner and yu know how we Guyanese does stop work a long time ahead. Congress and election gon stay on de back burner because who gon mind de store ain’t gon make any difference. Pandit said how we palm done grease from de aisle. Now it look like we overseas visitors put an end to de window shopping fo a leader.
Now, plenty of we have no ‘interest in conflict’ while we avoid any ‘conflict of interest.’ It look as if de new book write about a good cook up story to hook up some of dem crook. But we all know de aisle issue come from muddy water.

We ain’t got no blue wata but we got plenty Guyanese waita serving dem wid blue eyes. At the rate we going, we got to ask Guyana’s idol to discover all the covers so that we can able to uncover what we need to recover!

I always warn dem guys to watch where dem put dem mouth. When dem fall in trouble, don’t blame me. De Housing Ministry doing a good jab, far betta dan what we ever dream of doing. What we do in 5 years dem do in less than one year.
I tell yu, dat is progress and good fo de people and de nation. Yu see how dem foreigners’ eyes does open wide when dem see all we fancy houses and all dem bush land now converted to house land? As a Guyanese, I does smile and feel nice and I does take de credit too.
Every bady want a roof over dem head. People always strive to protect dem family from de sun and rain and, when de night come, dem happy dem have somewhere dey can put dem head and lie down in peace.

The proletariat does perceive the homeless as poor. The political bourgeoisie dialects are full of diatribe. When yu get a house, you feel a sense of pride and people can’t say yu living in poverty. Dis Govment do a lot of good things fo all Guyanese, regardless of kit and kin. Le we give Jack he jacket and don’t call a heart a clubs. I know cards.
We all know behind every good man is a woman (or two). But dem bais say how we moustache neighba in de West don’t wear de pants. He rattling and prancing and panting while dancing to somebody else tune. But he in a show business not to entertain we.
Because of he, we fren Mia find she self in some mud wata. But all of we in de Caribbean have to stand tall, firm and together in dis thing fo we own peace. Is nice de Big Guy had lunch wid dem families who have relatives braving de weather as frontliners.

Yu all see what happen to some of we when we greedy and see green only? Yes, we scraven and I ain’t talking about dem who does go to party and walk wid dem own doggy bag too. We eye big, especially dem lawyers who does turn liars and wan to milk honey from water. Some people think we firing and flying on six FPSO’s already.
Dem lawiars does use only US calculators and dem like to play Lord Invader’s “Working for de Yankee Dollars,” when is time to pay. Heaven and hell help you if yu got to go to a lawyer. Yu got to take out a mortgage to pay dem fee and dey don’t provide hire-purchase service. The US still has 50 states and we ain’t no Porto Rico.
Is a good ting, de Commish do he ting and full up de place wid police fo de holidays. People can breathe a sigh of temporary relief. We need de horse guards, especially around de market square. Now de place don’t smell like Christmas because we getting ice apple and grapes throughout de year.
But it looking like Christmas because of the decorations and Christmas trees. Is de high season for some people? Dem bandits rampant and dem rabbing plenty supermarkets. Is a good thing one good policeman fire at one of dem. But what happen to de hired security guard all de time? He freeze up or? Dis place got to be treated like ‘Little Guyana’ in Liberty Avenue where police cars patrol de area 24 x 7.

Dem bais say de mayor looking fo ‘breathing space’ while pedestrians begging fo ‘walking space.’ Shoppers searching fo ‘parking space’ and business owners crying fo ‘off-loading space.’ Truckers, drivers and bikers don’t have enough space but vendors using any space available. The mayor ain’t sure of he place because is a race without any pace while de CJ hold de ace!
Loo better run before he get replace and de Red Cross come out wid dem bucket.

Yours respectively,
Jai Lall.