Dear Diary,
I is Prominent Secretary Squelch an’ I in trouble again. You remember how bad deh treat me when I been in the Interior People Ministry? Schuups!! Anybody coulda make dat mistake – signing a ,500,000 check when it shoulda been ,000. Interior People never use to worry about adding zeroes to checks in all the years I been dealing wid dem, Dear Diary. Is dese Committees making all de trouble.
So dey move me over to Education as de Prominent Secretary. I suspect dey move me because dey think they can educate me about zeroes. I ain’t even settle in de job and now is de same thing all over again. Dey want to know how come a 5’x5’ Guard Hut at my house cost million! Dey say it shoulda cost ,000!
Schuups. Just because I used to be PS for Interior People Ministry, dey think I shoulda build a guard hut with a troolie roof? Or because de thing name “hut”? Dey think “PS” mean “postscript”, like being something you forget? ,000! Just the electronic security surveillance system cost 0,000! Dey think I would hire some fella from de bush patrolling the yard with a bow and arrow?
And what about the Air Conditioner. I was very cost conscious and bought one of those energy-savings “inverter” type! But do dey appreciate dat? Noooo! Dey had de nerve to ask me why de guard need AC? I had to tell dem it was not for the guard, stupid! It was for the surveillance system! Dey must come from de Bush.
Den the glass around the guard hut had to be bullet proof. Deh know how much bullet-proof glass cost? What is dat yuh ask, Dear Diary? Why de Hut need bullet proof glass? I is keeping de most valuable thing in Guyana, which nobody has seen. The Education Minister plans for education.
