Mr. Bismuth Bisram in Grenada is due in Guyana

Jul 10, 2008 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Just in case you don’t know, bismuth is a chemical in the periodic table. It is outside the scope of this essay to describe its properties but one of its values is its changing form. I am using the word here in that context.

It may come across as funny to you to read me referring to Vishnu Bisram as Bismuth Bisram but I have no jocular intention. I believe Vishnu Bisram’s changing forms have caught up with him.

His Grenada fiasco has not surprised me. What has me flabbergasted is how organizations, political parties, editors and commentators have not sought to expose Mr. Bisram, given the misleading details that have enveloped him.

I hope it was not just to get at me that Stabroek News encouraged him and published one of his fictional polls six weeks ago. How else can you explain what Stabroek News did?

Bisram had got into enormous tangles when confronted with the reality that there is no group named NACTA and that he, Bisram, is not a teacher in the US.

The information on Bisram was mountainous enough for Stabroek News to know that it should have kept its distance from this man.

I had a running battle with him for a six-week period in which he was evasive, gave contradictory statements about his work place and NACTA, and refused to offer information about every important detail of his polling establishment.

Stabroek News had to know this. But I guess I may have been the reason why they chose to accept a survey by Bisram and published it. The Stabroek News probably said, “To hell with Freddie Kissoon trying to prove the man wrong; we will publish the man’s project on the Government of Guyana’s popularity.”

As it turned out, his latest venture in Guyana was facetious, crazy and millions of miles away from reality. He concludes that the government is unpopular, that people think the President is doing a good job, but they believe his ministers are incompetent. This couldn’t have been a true reflection of how citizens feel.

Bisram was exposed once more. His venture in Grenada may have finally knocked him out. I doubt we will hear from him again.

One afternoon, two weeks ago, as I came out of the Promenade Gardens, a couple drove up to me. They told me they were from Trinidad. They had a grievance against Bismuth Bisram.

They informed that they believe Mr. Bisram’s polls are not polls at all but paper work designed to get people to swing to the particular party that Bisram favours.

I cannot go into details without coming close to legal trouble but I hope you read between the lines.
This happened in Trinidad, Guyana and now Grenada. Here is how it works. Mr. Bisram does a poll (well you know, what I mean, a so-called survey) and it puts Party XX in front of Party ZZ. What happens then is that the perception is born that Party XX will win so let’s vote for it.

I spoke to media personnel in Guyana who told me that they believe that Dick Morris utilizes this political method. He would publish a project and claim that Mr. John is leading in the campaign over Mr. Smith but in fact the exercise is intended to “big up” Mr. John.

I am sure Mr. Bisram must have run into trouble in Grenada after the election results on Tuesday. He wrote in a letter to the Stabroek News and spoke on radio in Grenada that Prime Minister Keith Mitchell will retain power and increase his lead. Bismuth Bisram got it 180 degrees wrong. The opposition won a landslide.

How did he get it so badly wrong? I will ask you to remember a letter to me he published in the Stabroek News (March 25, 08) He wrote: “Over the last decade, I have been approached by political parties in several countries to conduct polls.”

He went on to say that he has been requested to do forthcoming polls in two Caribbean islands. Obviously Grenada was one.

Who commissioned his latest poll in Guyana? Stabroek News said it wasn’t them. Can Bisram tell us which political party in Trinidad invited him to do pre-election surveys in the last elections there?

Can Mr. Bisram tell us who sanctioned his election project in Grenada? Was it paid for by Dr. Mitchell’s party?

Mr. Bisram is like the chemical, bismuth. I am asking the Stabroek News, the Kaieteur News, the PNC, AFC and other sections of the Guyanese society to stay far away from Mr. Bisram. This man is not telling the truth about his place of employment and his polls.

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