From Peter Taylor to Glenn Lall: Guyana never had a life

Nov 08, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Once life goes on, we will see surprises that our imagination would never believe and even when the surprises defy our imagination, and take up real existence in the world, we still cannot believe what we saw and heard.
Dr. Cheddi Jagan was one of the most fanatical communists the 20th century produced. There is no question in my mind that there were persons inside the leadership of the Soviet Union who were less fanatical about communism than Jagan. Jagan’s communism made him not only distrustful but almost hateful of the press.
It was no accident then that from 1957 to 1964 when he was Premier, Jagan fought a daily battle with the private media, banning journalists from his press briefings, suing the newspapers and there was the attempt to murder the editor of the Argosy, Peter Taylor. One of the persons involved in that heinous act was a close relative of mine.
The time has come for me to reveal his name. His kids are in their fifties, his wife is moving on to her eighties; she lives abroad. The identity will be revealed soon. One of the journalists who felt the brunt of Premier Jagan’s paranoia was Mr. “Kit” Nascimento, a very personal friend of Peter Taylor. Mr. Nascimento was the subject of endless vilification by the Jagan Government and was banned from Jagan’s press conferences.
Mr. Nascimento does PR work for the PPP Government. An unbelievable surprise! He secured a governmental consultancy with the blessing of Mrs. Janet Jagan before she died. If only Nascimento knows the truth behind the order to kill Peter Taylor.
This columnist knows that the conspiracy goes right up to the top of the PPP and involves a certain lady.
Recently, Mr. Nascimento observed that the Guyana Times is the New York Times of Guyana, I threw up when I read that asininity. If a dirty, unprofessional rag like the Guyana Times is the New York Times of Guyana, then trust me on this one – Adolph Hitler was one of the world’s golden angels. My point is it should come as no surprise the nasty, dangerous conspiracy of violence by the present PPP against the Kaieteur News. The PPP historically hated the private media. Nothing has changed since the fifties.
This has been a long introduction to the miasmic statement the Guyana Government put out as a reaction to the damning evidence revealed in “tapegate” on the PPP’s intentions against the private media. Press freedom is in jeopardy in Guyana. It always was whenever the PPP is in power.
The lies are morbidly sickening. First, of the television stations that operate in Guyana, only one was national in that its signals reached the majority of Guyana’s territory. That was NCN. Then Bobby Ramroop came on the scene, bought out channel 28 and the frequency management department gave him permission to broadcast all over Guyana. So Guyana has only two stations with national reach. Both are in the hands of the ruling cabal.
As for Linden, its people can only access one station – NCN. Every other television signal in this country is severely limited in range. They are confined to selected areas in Region Four.
Secondly, just before he demitted office, Bharrat Jagdeo shared out radio licences in the most depraved manner. All went to friends of the PPP, one to the PPP itself, one to Robert Persaud and a few to Bobby Ramroop.
Even though the PPP friends got radio licences, only Robert Persaud, Bobby Ramroop and NCN radio transmitting reaches all of Guyana. The outfit by Hits and Jams and other PPP supports are “village transmitters.” They cannot be accessed outside of their narrow confines. It is deceitful for the Ramotar Government to paint itself as a supporter of press freedom when the signal manipulation is understood by Guyanese.
Interesting to note is that Enrico Woolford, Prime News, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News among others were denied radio licences. It is simply evil for the Government to say it ended the radio monopoly. We still have PPP radio monopoly in Guyana.
Finally, for 18 months the Stabroek News had to endure advertisement boycott by the State. Even PPP political consultant, Rickey Singh, of Barbados, failed to persuade Jagdeo to recant this vicious anti-press attitude. Then the boycott hit the Kaieteur News. But the horror story did not end there. When Guyana Times was established those advertisements were then given to the Guyana Times even though it had no proper circulation.
We have reached the stage where the PPP wants to do to Glenn Lall what it did to Peter Taylor.

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