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An outrageous statement
Dear Editor,
Here is columnist Freddie Kissoon again in Kaieteur News of 23.11.10, in his column captioned, “Propaganda or sincere beliefs though not grounded in reality?” spewing his usual drivel.
And what an obsession he has with President Jagdeo! Attacking a leader who has done so much for the restoration of this country’s once battered image and the great transformation that is propelling Guyana onto the highway of modernisation.
In a paragraph of his latest diatribe, Kissoon has taken issue with the President’s reference to the progress now evident in Guyana.
He assumes that, “Mr. Jagdeo probably has in mind the countless construction going on at a supersonic pace all over Guyana.” Then went on to make a most damningly unfair statement: “In Guyana, nuff constructions are being done by the proceeds of money laundering.”
I need not emphasise the marked generalization of such a statement. And he as an initially trained historian must know that not only is generalization unfair, but unsafe, dangerous and filled with serious implications.
The distinguished Guyanese historian, Professor Emeritus Dr. Menezes, I am quite certain, would have reminded his class of this pitfall ever so often. But that is Kissoon’s style, interpreting without evidence and taking offence with anyone who dares to disagree.
I interpret this creolese “nuff,’ used in the context of the article to mean that a significant number of Guyanese are washing their dirty money, via the building boom.
Yes, there are those who are involved in this illegality; but, what about those thousands of Guyanese who through honest toil and against the odds, have built beautiful homes, compliments of the revolutionary PPP/C housing programme that give all Guyanese an equal opportunity to acquire a house lot along with titled ownership and easy access to mortgage loans and repayment costs.
This once in a lifetime deal is open to all Guyanese regardless of class, colour or creed.
Is such a generalization fair to all these folks, who up to 10 years ago, many of them, were crammed along with their families in squatter settlements, in very insalubrious environments.
This statement must be seen as an attack on the hardworking class of Guyanese, who have been sweating for a clean dollar, and with full voice they must condemn such a foul and outrageous statement.
Dean Clement
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