{"id":19071,"date":"2012-08-16T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/?p=19071"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T19:35:39","slug":"wha-rain-na-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wha-rain-na-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Wha rain na full"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Satiricus was livid. This was a rare state of affairs. Satiricus was an easy going soul. His motto was \u201ctek it easy\u201d. He thought Guyanese greatest contribution to world civilisation was the philosophy captured by the phrase, \u201cthrow back\u201d. But here he was, literally jumping up and down. It had to do with the CSEC exams and his son\u2019s results.<br \/>\n\u201cThe boy\u2019s at one of these pilot schools,\u201d he complained to the gang at the back-street dive. \u201cCan you believe the minister held back the boy\u2019s results?\u201d His voice rose in indignation.<br \/>\n\u201cJust your boy\u2019s results?\u201d enquired Suresh, sympathetically. \u201cWhy the picking on him? Like he one of the bad boys like his father been, eh?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is no time to make jokes, boy,\u201d said Satiricus sternly. \u201cThe boy and his mother are going to have a nervous breakdown soon, if the chap don\u2019t get his result.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAnd lemme tell alyuh,\u201d laughed Cappo. \u201cWhen Sato\u2019s old lady cranky, is nothing fuh Sato!!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIs the same blasted thing I\u2019m saying,\u201d said Satiricus with some irritation. \u201cEverything is a skin-teeth with you chaps.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOkay&#8230; Okay,\u201d said Kuldeep soothingly. \u201cLet\u2019s hear what\u2019s going on.\u201d He continued modestly, \u201cYou know my daughter got 10 grade ones from Queen\u2019s?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes Kuldeep, I know, and congrats and so on,\u201d Satiricus continued. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the problem. Everybody\u2019s getting their results and my son is in the dark.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYeah, but why?\u201d chipped in Hari.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, you know our Maths and English scores suck,\u201d explained Teacher Samad. \u201cLast December, the minister gave out millions of dollars worth of calculators and so on to these pilot schools to improve their performance.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOnly in December and dem children write exam in May?\u201d asked Cappo.<br \/>\n\u201cWha rain na full, dew cyaan full.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll be glad to know even what the rain filled,\u201d admitted Sato. \u201cBut the minister now say no results until she get back all the calculators as things.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou shi** ing me!\u201d Suresh blurted out. \u201cThat\u2019s like blackmail, man. Did she tell the children and the school this when she hand out the calculators? I don\u2019t remember reading that in the news papers.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWell that\u2019s the problem,\u201d explained Satiricus. \u201cKids used to get books and they never hold back the CSEC results for the books.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut you know, Sato,\u201d advised Bungi. \u201cWhen man done suck cane he does dash husk pan de ground.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cListen Budday,\u201d retorted Satiricus heatedly. \u201cThe \u2018taking back\u2019 and the results are two different things. My son took back his calculator. The minister shouldn\u2019t hold the results at ransom.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut Sato,\u201d interrupted Hari. \u201cYuh gat fuh blow yuh nose where yuh stump yuh toe. You\u2019re a newspaper man. Write a letter to the minister.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMy friend, by the time, I hear anything,\u201d said Satiricus \u201cmy wife and son will be living in Berbice mad house.\u201d \u201cAnd Sato gon be deh before, because he na get nothing fuh weeks!\u201d grinned Cappo.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, me can always tek de Bai wid me to de backdam if the result hold up forever,\u201d suggested Bungi. \u201cGuySuCo gat plenty vacancy!\u201d \u201cMaybe the minister is trying to help out agri culture?\u201d asked Satiricus. \u201cI\u2019ll tell that to my wife and son.\u201d<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satiricus was livid. This was a rare state of affairs. Satiricus was an easy going soul. His motto was \u201ctek it easy\u201d. He thought Guyanese greatest contribution to world civilisation was the philosophy captured by the phrase, \u201cthrow back\u201d. But here he was, literally jumping up and down. It had to do with the CSEC exams and his son\u2019s results. \u201cThe boy\u2019s at one of these pilot schools,\u201d he complained to the gang at the back-street dive. \u201cCan you believe the minister held back the boy\u2019s results?\u201d His voice rose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satiricus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19072,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}