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Mar 16, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I apologize to Freddie Kissoon! My letters are so irritating, that he will stop responding to them… how sad, not because he finds my “assessments highly unintellectual and definitely childish”, but because he cannot refute the facts as presented when challenged.
And he ran from me even faster than he avoided Stella Ramsaroop when I recently paid a courtesy call to the management of Kaieteur News. But Freddie reminds me of the children’s story of the Fox and the Grapes, when the fox declares the grapes to be sour because they were unreachable and could not have been eaten.
And like a fox, he cunningly diverts to other issues as if that was the subject-matter being discussed. My letter had nothing to do with Trotman, Ramjattan and the AFC, although I still believe the AFC to be inexperienced, not ready for prime time.
I mentioned projects done by the PPP/C government in Berbice, and did not comment on individual Ministers experience. So why Freddie found it necessary to compare them to the experience of the AFC leaders can only be viewed as a deliberate diversion to avoid discussing the developments that have been ongoing in Berbice tol empower the people there to once again vote PPP/C.
I wonder if Freddie finds my criticism of President Jagdeo also irritating, or is it only irritating when I expose Kissoon’s bias and distorted views.
I’m disappointed that he did not make better use of the valuable space in Guyana’s premier newspaper to try to prove me wrong when I declared that Berbicians are better off under the PPP/C. Instead, he set about explaining the meaning of the word ‘Gillaroo’ which no one but himself is interested in.
His recent letter, “Harry Gill is no gillaroo” (KN March 13) gives the perfect example why courts do not accept ‘hear-say’ evidence.
I listed a number of developmental projects that Berbicians have benefited from under the Jagdeo Administration. I expected Freddie to comment on this. But to do so would be an admission of PPP’s success in that region, and he’ll be dead before he ever acknowledges this.
Freddie admits to having friends who are Berbicians; knowing reporters who cover the news in Berbice; and having “friends in the opposition parties that visit Berbice often”, but Freddie the Fox was not man enough to admit that the same Berbice Campus of the University of Guyana where his colleagues work, was built by the Jagdeo Administration.
And he certainly did not indicate whether he had even been to Berbice, but knows for sure that I’ve never been there. For by his own admission, he wrote, “I prefer to be guided by them (his friends) on what goes on in Berbice than by a man whose evaluations are one-sided.”
My letter was based on things I’ve seen and discussions I’ve had with people actually living in Berbice while I was there. Freddie’s “Ghost Town” image of the Ancient County, was derived from hear-say evidence, not admissible in a court of Law.
Unlike Freddie, I have been to Berbice as recent as June 2010, not 20 years ago as he would like people to believe. Upon my return to New York from Guyana, I had written a letter to Kaieteur News, early July 2010 in which I wrote,
“During my stay, I travelled mainly throughout West Demerara and Georgetown, and had the opportunity to drive over the much talked about Berbice River Bridge on my way to the Corentyne River in Berbice.”
Freddie should have done his research before jumping to conclusions and making an idiot of himself. I have photographs and videos to prove it, and Freddie will get a copy later this week, when he is presented with the new SUV he had been begging overseas Guyanese for. Problem is, he should have specified that he wanted a real car and not a toy.
I will be back in Berbice again on Sunday to celebrate Phagwah, and I challenge Freddie Kissoon to take a ride with me there, all expenses paid. And after taking him to the new National Ophthalmology Hospital in Port Mourant, I guarantee he’ll have a memorable and eye-opening experience.
Harry Gill

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