Beta.
Beta listen to me.
I read de Daily Brief dis morning and I have to say something. De TWB Editorial gettin’ on like dey discover a problem. De Wales situation? Dat is being looked into. De Ministry will issue a statement when dey ready to issue a statement. You don’t rush a vetting review. Vetting takes time. Especially when de man already in post for eighteen month and de project five billion US deep. You go vet now? Now? Where you was last year?
De Rupununi situation, my friend, is also being addressed. GPL technician dem reach Lethem on Friday. You know how far Lethem is? You know what it take to move a transformer to Lethem? De man dem working. Day forty-seven sound long when you say it out loud, but if you break it down — dat is only six week and a half. Six week and a half is nothing in infrastructure terms. De British took thirty year to build de Demerara Harbour Bridge. We doing better than de British.
De CARICOM ting in Kingston? Dat is a Trinidad problem. Trinidad always blocking. Don’t put dat on Guyana. We push for de framework. We pushing right now. If de talk fail, is Port of Spain to blame, not Brickdam.
De Cabinet reshuffle ting — TWB say dey not calling it, and for once I agree. Kaieteur should learn to wait. Two report don’t make a reshuffle, dey right about dat one. But notice how dey only careful when de rumour is negative for de government? When de rumour is positive, like de bamboo planting, dey put it in de brief immediately. Selective skepticism is a thing, beta. Look it up.
De school of Agriculture. De market tender at Pouderoyen and Buxton. De bamboo planting at Wales. Dat is what de Daily Brief should lead with. Not de Andorra account from a ten-year-old document. Not de Rupununi where de population is seventeen thousand people, total. Not a CARICOM meeting that is barely about us.
We have de fastest-growing economy in de hemisphere. We have de oil. We have de gas. We have de bamboo.
Some people just don’t know how to appreciate progress when dey see it.
Beta — go appreciate.