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Jul 11, 2009 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
In the Freddie Kissoon column of July 7, 2009, captioned “President Jagdeo does it again” the writer expresses the following: “The latest debacles of Mr. Jagdeo are three in number. One is where he said in Trinidad that there will be the Freedom of Information Act in May.
We won’t have it in 2009 and I doubt we will have it under Mr. Jagdeo. He should have not stated a specific date. Secondly, he cites an international organization’s rating of Guyana being number 30 in a list of two hundred countries as having a free press.
What a terrible mistake to make! If that organisation, Freedom House of New York, puts Guyana at 30, how will Mr. Jagdeo react when similar prestigious institutions rate Guyana lowly in the realms of bad governance, racial discrimination, narco-trafficking, trafficking in people, openness to foreign investment etc?
If the press does it work, it can embarrass Mr. Jagdeo. For example, why is Freedom House to be accepted and not Transparency International and the UN report of Ms. Mc Dougal on racism, as a policy of the Government here? The press should ask Mr. Jagdeo why he accepts Freedom House’s rating of how his Government approaches the media, but not Ms. Mc Dougal’s report on racial discrimination by his Government.
Finally, he accuses Khemraj Ramjatttan of impropriety in a duty free letter. But what about the more than 50 bogus duty free letters signed by a top Ministry official?”

I ask that you to permit me to offer a few comments to Freddie Kissoon in relation to the above:
(1) Guyana does not need a freedom of information act since SN, Kaieteur News, PNCR, AFC, GHRA, ACDA, Ms.Gay McDougal and people the likes of you have all the information on every thing the PPP/C administration does and does not do.
(2) Freedom House in New York must have it right when it comes to Guyana’s free press because it reads the Kaieteur News, SN and the GHRA spewed against the PPP/C Government, but Government does not take serious actions against this so-called free press in Guyana.
(3) There are many persons in the opposition calling on the PPP/C Government for transparency, but transparency in their own business dealings must not be transparent.
(4) You are such a brilliant man but yet called the more than 50 bogus duty free letters “Bogus”. Please be reminded that the President does not know what top ministry officials are doing at present until it comes to light.
(5) Kindly ask the AFC leaders to submit to Government where funds are coming from to sustain their political party.
(6) Kindly ask Ms. Gay McDougal if she had spoken with the general public and any PPP/C Government official on how she arrived at her conclusion in regard to race relation in Guyana.
(7) Last but not least, kindly tell us what are the criteria for TIP? Then, point out the 100 or more cases of TIP in Guyana and let’s put this Government to shame and disgrace it come next election.
Also, you must tell the Guyanese nation who gives the TIP information to the United States.
Freddie Kissoon you may live in hopes, but it would be a disaster dying in despair.
T. King

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