Youth Desk Reporting
They don’t like the term.
They don’t like the ridicule.
They wish to do their betraying work in boldly, but without consequence, without exposure, and without judgment. But betrayal of this magnitude demands clarity, and it demands naming. So let’s call them what they are ‘slave catchers.’
Today, in Guyana, a dangerous class of self-interested former PNC supporters has emerged. These are not reformers or bridge builders. They are not neutral actors moved by conscience. These are individuals who have chosen to ignore state oppression and have aligned themselves with a ruling party marked by injustice, racial discrimination, and unchecked abuse of power.
They are the enablers of extrajudicial killings.
They are silent about mass firings of Afro-Guyanese public servants.
They turn a blind eye to the theft of ancestral lands.
And they gaslight the very communities they once pretended to defend.
Some are fueled by bitterness. Others are driven by ambition or broken promises from a party that will never truly accept them. Whatever the reason, they now cloak their betrayal in talk of “unity” and “development,” as if justice is something that can be negotiated away.
They don’t want to be called out. They want to betray with impunity.
But we see them clearly.
No, you are not called to support the PNC just because you are Black. But you are called to stand against injustice. You are obligated to reject a government that consistently violates the dignity and rights of Black and working-class Guyanese. You do not get to pretend morality while aligning with oppression.
Your passionate but deceitful outpourings fool no one.
You are not champions of progress.
You are not objective thinkers.
You are the reason injustice is sustained.
‘Slave catchers’ didn’t only exist centuries ago. They exist now, dressed in modern language, making media rounds, justifying state violence, and selling their credibility for contracts, visibility, or temporary comfort.
They wish to escape accountability, but they won’t. History is already writing your chapter. And it will not be kind.
