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Mr. Hergash misses the point

Aug 20, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Harry Hergash has replied to my letter of August 18 in yesterday’s edition (18-08-08) of Kaieteur News.
He sorely and abjectly misses the point. He wants me to forget about him the person, the messenger, and look at the message.

But the messenger has an obsession with one person in Guyana. He is carrying mail that is about one person only – Frederick Kissoon. Mr. Hergash did not read my Monday letter properly.

I have no objection to the countless letters the media carry on me that are critical. These letter writers have other ideas in their head. Mr. Hergash cites Peeping Tom. But that columnist has no obsession with me. I believe there are several authors that go by that title and their pens roam far and wide.

The situation is not the same with Hergash. It seems he goes home from work and is only interested in what Frederick Kissoon writes when he opens his computer.

Again I see nothing wrong with one particular person who has a problem with my columns.
And he/she expresses his/her opinions on my weaknesses. But I would like to think other polemics should catch their attention. I would like to think that I am not the only person generating controversy in the Republic of Guyana.

I have no power to change policy-making in Guyana and policy-making in Guyana comes wrapped up in some dangerous garb.

You mean to tell me Hergash has not detected any area of egregiousness in the 16-year old rule of the PPP Government? You mean to tell me he has found no particularly untenable act of the Guyana Government?
But the writings of Frederick Kissoon are what interest him. If that is so, Hergash is a funny fellow, to say the least.

Here is a good example of what I mean by obsession. Mrs. Jagan has a weekly column in the Mirror newspaper. She writes frequently on the trouble of the sixties. But Hergash has never found it necessary to interject.

Dr. Odeen Ishmael, our Ambassador to Venezuela, has a weekly column in the Mirror too on the history of Guyana. Most of his pieces, including the one last week, are on the politics of the sixties.

Isn’t it strange that Hergash is only galvanized to rebut Frederick Kissoon’s interpretation of the sixties?
I have my reason why Hergash and others write to criticise me.

They want to ingratiate themselves with the Government of Guyana. What better way to do it than to confront one of the main critics of the Government and the presidency? I don’t know who Mr. Hergash thinks he is fooling, maybe the folks in the Canada-Guyana Forum but not the Guyanese readers.

Finally, let me ask you a question Harry – should I lose sleepless nights when a person who hides behind a false name and face castigate me? You cited Peeping Tom as a Kaieteur News colleague of mine as penning the opinion that I have lost my credibility. This is news to me. I don’t know who wrote that statement.

But if you think he is a Kaieteur News colleague of mine then you know more than I do. I still cannot classify him as a Kaieteur News friend because I don’t know if you truly know who is Peeping Tom. How do you know he is my colleague? Do people have nameless, faceless colleagues that they don’t know?

Let me close by saying Harry, that from the time you penned your first letter on me, I thought you lost your credibility.

How do your colleagues in the Canada-Guyana Forum feel about this diminished image of yours?

Frederick Kissoon

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