Taxi driver -Written by a South African journalist
Clearly, the Guyana taxi industry lives by two codes"we'll get you there - dead or alive" and "we'll brake when we hitsomething". As a passenger you're just shrapnel from a flyingbullet.It doesn't matter which route you take. For tourists there are onlytwo rules:1) get in the vehicle quickly or it will take off without y! ou, as one ofour colleagues who had his foot driven over can attest, and 2) pray - prayreally hard. Pray that you don't hit something, pray that your last mealhas been well digested and pray that your estateback home is in order.Traffic in Guyana is more like random, totally senseless manoeuvres byheaps of rusty metal and horse-drawn carriages. There are four-way stops,but they're more like a game of chicken: he who dares, crosses first. Thereare no road signs, there are no lanes. Rumour has it that there is a set oftraffic lights in town, but it's an...
