The most barefaced, morbid commentary in the history of Guyana

Aug 09, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I was a tiny bit annoyed but not to the point where I wished it didn’t happen. On Saturday morning, I got a call from an elderly gentleman at around 6.20 hours. I was just rising. He said he was overcome with emotions and couldn’t control himself about the urge to make contact out of fear that he may not catch me later in the day. He explained that he is up early. He reads all the newspapers online then takes his customary matutinal walk. After what he saw in the Chronicle, he became so curious that he had to call me.
He wanted me to read the Chronicle’s editorial for that day. He pleaded with me to reply as a special favour to him in my column for Sunday. At the time of speaking to him, my Sunday KN column was already penned and ready to be-mailed later the morning. I did promise that if the editorial is worth reading I will compose an essay on it. These encounters you experience all the time as a human rights activist so you take them in your stride. I left the Chronicle for later reading.
Actually, I almost didn’t get to it. On Saturday night, I decided not to lime at Kaieteur News but to stay home and view one of the movie classics that I have on my shelf. I chose “Valley of the Dolls” not because I admire the work of its author, Jacqueline Susann. I don’t. I only read one of Susann’s books. When I was young I digested, “Once Is Not Enough” and didn’t like it. I saw the movie and didn’t like it either. I wanted to see “Valley of the Dolls” because I think that after Daniel Spielberg, the star’s husband, Roman Polanski, is the next best guy behind the camera.
His latest venture is a class act. It is titled, “The Ghost Writer” which is a fictional account of Tony Blair’s covert collaboration with President George Bush on the war on terror. It is a mystery of how such a talented artist could have raped a young girl. I wanted to see “Valley of the Dolls” because I never saw on screen Polanski’s murdered wife, Sharon Tate, killed by the cult followers of Charles Manson at a Beverly Hills party. Manson is still in prison after serving more than forty years for the crime.
After the movie, I went on the internet and just barely remembered the early morning caller. I don’t read the Chronicle and the Guyana Times even online though I must say in all honesty, the Times is not a gutter newspaper and I would be dishonest to categorize it as such. So I perused the editorial and right in front of my psychology was the caller’s emotions. After I read that thrash, I understood why that gentleman wanted me to do a commentary on this gutter viewpoint. This is the most barefaced commentary in the history of this country. Nothing hypocritical and barefaced as this written morbidity has ever found itself in a newspaper since the fifties right up to last Saturday.
The editorial chastised the entire society, I repeat, the entire society, for immorality and indecency and left out the Government of Guyana. UG students were accused of stealing from their colleagues. Lawyers were indicted for exploiting their clients. A finger was pointed to wrongdoing in the judiciary. Opposition politicians were knocked for bad-mouthing their country. Building contractors were cited for gross dishonesty. Nurses were ridiculed for stealing from their patients. The editorial said police and soldiers are corrupt. The word, “rob” was used to describe the conduct of some taxi drivers. Civil servants were accused of short-changing the public. Journalists were criticized, like the UG students, for stealing the electron properties of their colleagues. Prison authorities were not spared either. As I wrote above, the entire society was painted.
There was not a word about the miasma that has completely surrounded the Chronicle, making it perhaps the filthiest newspaper in the world. Several lawyers told me I must put a complete halt to the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of dirty, scandalous and libelous letters they have been carrying on me the past five years. It will stop soon. I know it will because they know what is coming. Not a word was said about the most corrupt regime in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean that resides in Guyana. Not a word about the Varshnie Singh’s complaint of high-tech abuse or about a non-legal marriage deception foisted upon the nation or the pervasive sexual misconduct of some powerful politicians.

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