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Jul 07, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom
(Kaieteur News) – There is an old habit in Guyana that refuses to die. It is a habit born not of evidence but of envy, not of investigation but of insinuation.
It surfaces whenever someone builds a handsome home, acquires farmland, opens a new business, or appears to prosper beyond what the village accountant believes possible. The verdict comes swiftly and confidently: the money must be dirty. Drugs. Corruption. Theft. Something illicit. There is seldom any proof. There is always certainty.
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