Hundred thousand dollar dreams

President Ali recently announced that every Guyanese household would receive a $200000 cash grant. This promise was quickly withdrawn when people raised concerns about what qualifies as a household and how it would not be a fair process especially for larger households. The people learned from the COVID cash grant. Distribution of the COVID cash grant was not a fair process. Many of us were left holding pink slips we could not cash. Where our envelopes with the five green notes went some may still be wondering. Some might have assumed that the pockets of some who were involved in the distribution process were overflowing with the green notes. A friend told me that a colleague from a particular community reported that they got double the COVID cash grant. Such allegations are troubling. In the face of disparity, we may be briefly enraged, but before long we comfortably sit back into our place in society whether that be with “the haves” or “the haves not”.