![kunley_drukpa's tweet photo. CONVERSATION WITH A BELIZEAN TAXI DRIVER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS BELIZE HAS 🇧🇿
Taking a taxi ride in Belize and the older Afro-Belizean driver asked me where I was from. Told him Britain and he immediately became more animated. Took the opportunity to ask him questions about the current state of Belize. Most of his responses were pretty negative:
“Listen sir you gwan hear me now, you British better come back go run the country again”
[This is how he actually spoke, may be transcribing the Kriol spellings slightly incorrectly here but this is what it sounded like - Belize has its own patois which has a lot of grammar and vocabulary crossover with Jamaican patios since a lot of Belizean slave labour was imported over from Jamaica]
“Are you joking?”
“Me nah joke, since the British went up and gone they have make it a real babylon town”
“You think since the British left it went to shit?”
“By the way sir God bless Her Majesty I was so upset when she died mi heart mi heavy bad”
“Thank you”
“Yah listen to me though, this country now you never gun know such a repository of miscreants”
“Why do you not like it? What went wrong since the British left?”
“Where can me start? Yah see corruption and greed about you, yah see crime and confusion about you, yah see dem indigent and dem destitute about you”
“Is the Government not competent? What’s the main issue - just no development, everything is a mess?”
“Yah didn’t never see such bedlam when the British here”
“I travel a lot and I have seen worse countries, there are some bad areas here but it isn’t completely destitute. Probably I just went in the tourist areas but I would describe Belize as ‘sleepy’, maybe ‘ramshackle’”
“I been on God’s green earth sixty seven years and I tell yah it was better before”
“I think you’re exaggerating”
“Mi tongue noh bend fi lie”
“Is this a common opinion in Belize? People really want the British back?”
“Some ah say this, some ah say that”
“You mean some people prefer independence?”
“Bwai! They too proud, deh noh know weh di gwan”
“You can understand the impulse for independence though surely?”
“No”
“Are you really not exaggerating?”
“Me never tell tall tales”
“Okay, well, I heard there is a lot of gang crime here. I don’t know how cautious to be when I go for a walk because a lot of people I see here seem just more lethargic than actually dangerous. So the gang crime stuff, is that true?”
“You go about your walk roun troo a rough part of di city di young bwai you see about you see, cho! Yah listen good heed me now they a’ real rascals”
[Though it varies from country to country some older Afro-Caribbeans inbetween pidgin will use slightly antiquated English vocabulary and turns of phrase, formal sounding words it would be rare to hear non-educated English speakers use in other English speaking countries but which are more commonplace in the Caribbean because versions of Caribbean English was isolated and developed in slightly different ways]
“So would I die if I walk too far in the wrong neighbourhood?”
“They a gonna rob yah blind and kot yah silly”
“Why do they act like that? What’s wrong with them?”
“Me have to say they have trubul in the mind. They haf no discipline, no education, they go live a life of mischief”
“Does the government not do anything to help improve conditions?”
“They don’t care they too busy falling afoul of temptation”
“I heard sometimes Belize has problems with the Guatemalans. How do you feel about Guatemalans? Do you like Guatemalans? You know the Mayans”
“No”
“Why not?”
“Me just nah like them”
“I see”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3aYfyuXgAAolV8.jpg)
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CONVERSATION WITH A BELIZEAN TAXI DRIVER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS BELIZE HAS 🇧🇿
Taking a taxi ride in Belize and the older Afro-Belizean driver asked me where I was from. Told him Britain and he immediately became more animated. Took the opportunity to ask him questions about the current state of Belize. Most of his responses were pretty negative:
“Listen sir you gwan hear me now, you British better come back go run the country again”
[This is how he actually spoke, may be transcribing the Kriol spellings slightly incorrectly here but this is what it sounded like - Belize has its own patois which has a lot of grammar and vocabulary crossover with Jamaican patios since a lot of Belizean slave labour was imported over from Jamaica]
“Are you joking?”
“Me nah joke, since the British went up and gone they have make it a real babylon town”
“You think since the British left it went to shit?”
“By the way sir God bless Her Majesty I was so upset when she died mi heart mi heavy bad”
“Thank you”
“Yah listen to me though, this country now you never gun know such a repository of miscreants”
“Why do you not like it? What went wrong since the British left?”
“Where can me start? Yah see corruption and greed about you, yah see crime and confusion about you, yah see dem indigent and dem destitute about you”
“Is the Government not competent? What’s the main issue - just no development, everything is a mess?”
“Yah didn’t never see such bedlam when the British here”
“I travel a lot and I have seen worse countries, there are some bad areas here but it isn’t completely destitute. Probably I just went in the tourist areas but I would describe Belize as ‘sleepy’, maybe ‘ramshackle’”
“I been on God’s green earth sixty seven years and I tell yah it was better before”
“I think you’re exaggerating”
“Mi tongue noh bend fi lie”
“Is this a common opinion in Belize? People really want the British back?”
“Some ah say this, some ah say that”
“You mean some people prefer independence?”
“Bwai! They too proud, deh noh know weh di gwan”
“You can understand the impulse for independence though surely?”
“No”
“Are you really not exaggerating?”
“Me never tell tall tales”
“Okay, well, I heard there is a lot of gang crime here. I don’t know how cautious to be when I go for a walk because a lot of people I see here seem just more lethargic than actually dangerous. So the gang crime stuff, is that true?”
“You go about your walk roun troo a rough part of di city di young bwai you see about you see, cho! Yah listen good heed me now they a’ real rascals”
[Though it varies from country to country some older Afro-Caribbeans inbetween pidgin will use slightly antiquated English vocabulary and turns of phrase, formal sounding words it would be rare to hear non-educated English speakers use in other English speaking countries but which are more commonplace in the Caribbean because versions of Caribbean English was isolated and developed in slightly different ways]
“So would I die if I walk too far in the wrong neighbourhood?”
“They a gonna rob yah blind and kot yah silly”
“Why do they act like that? What’s wrong with them?”
“Me have to say they have trubul in the mind. They haf no discipline, no education, they go live a life of mischief”
“Does the government not do anything to help improve conditions?”
“They don’t care they too busy falling afoul of temptation”
“I heard sometimes Belize has problems with the Guatemalans. How do you feel about Guatemalans? Do you like Guatemalans? You know the Mayans”
“No”
“Why not?”
“Me just nah like them”
“I see”
![kunley_drukpa's tweet photo. CONVERSATION WITH A BELIZEAN TAXI DRIVER ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS BELIZE HAS 🇧🇿
Taking a taxi ride in Belize and the older Afro-Belizean driver asked me where I was from. Told him Britain and he immediately became more animated. Took the opportunity to ask him questions about the current state of Belize. Most of his responses were pretty negative:
“Listen sir you gwan hear me now, you British better come back go run the country again”
[This is how he actually spoke, may be transcribing the Kriol spellings slightly incorrectly here but this is what it sounded like - Belize has its own patois which has a lot of grammar and vocabulary crossover with Jamaican patios since a lot of Belizean slave labour was imported over from Jamaica]
“Are you joking?”
“Me nah joke, since the British went up and gone they have make it a real babylon town”
“You think since the British left it went to shit?”
“By the way sir God bless Her Majesty I was so upset when she died mi heart mi heavy bad”
“Thank you”
“Yah listen to me though, this country now you never gun know such a repository of miscreants”
“Why do you not like it? What went wrong since the British left?”
“Where can me start? Yah see corruption and greed about you, yah see crime and confusion about you, yah see dem indigent and dem destitute about you”
“Is the Government not competent? What’s the main issue - just no development, everything is a mess?”
“Yah didn’t never see such bedlam when the British here”
“I travel a lot and I have seen worse countries, there are some bad areas here but it isn’t completely destitute. Probably I just went in the tourist areas but I would describe Belize as ‘sleepy’, maybe ‘ramshackle’”
“I been on God’s green earth sixty seven years and I tell yah it was better before”
“I think you’re exaggerating”
“Mi tongue noh bend fi lie”
“Is this a common opinion in Belize? People really want the British back?”
“Some ah say this, some ah say that”
“You mean some people prefer independence?”
“Bwai! They too proud, deh noh know weh di gwan”
“You can understand the impulse for independence though surely?”
“No”
“Are you really not exaggerating?”
“Me never tell tall tales”
“Okay, well, I heard there is a lot of gang crime here. I don’t know how cautious to be when I go for a walk because a lot of people I see here seem just more lethargic than actually dangerous. So the gang crime stuff, is that true?”
“You go about your walk roun troo a rough part of di city di young bwai you see about you see, cho! Yah listen good heed me now they a’ real rascals”
[Though it varies from country to country some older Afro-Caribbeans inbetween pidgin will use slightly antiquated English vocabulary and turns of phrase, formal sounding words it would be rare to hear non-educated English speakers use in other English speaking countries but which are more commonplace in the Caribbean because versions of Caribbean English was isolated and developed in slightly different ways]
“So would I die if I walk too far in the wrong neighbourhood?”
“They a gonna rob yah blind and kot yah silly”
“Why do they act like that? What’s wrong with them?”
“Me have to say they have trubul in the mind. They haf no discipline, no education, they go live a life of mischief”
“Does the government not do anything to help improve conditions?”
“They don’t care they too busy falling afoul of temptation”
“I heard sometimes Belize has problems with the Guatemalans. How do you feel about Guatemalans? Do you like Guatemalans? You know the Mayans”
“No”
“Why not?”
“Me just nah like them”
“I see”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3aYfyxXgAAq6HL.jpg)
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