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Why crucify Kissoon because of a teenage prank?

Feb 10, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,    It irks me to see Mr. Henry Jeffrey and the Chronicle running down Mr. Freddie Kissoon because of a teenage prank of removing a book from a library or bookshop. Removing a book from such places is regarded in many student circles as one of the things a student/teenager must do to be really “blooded”.
In both England and North America, this is a norm and is never regarded in the elite of academic circles as something really reprehensible. After all, many of the highest academics of Oxbridge and the Ivy League, including Nobel Prize winners, have gleefully admitted to such teenage pranks.
The silliness of trying to persecute Kissoon for a usual student and teenager prank could only be attributed to the madness of trying to muzzle and silence this writer. But the public wants to read Kissoon and his column is the most read and studied column in the entire Guyanese media.
The Chronicle and those of that ilk do not complain when certain ministers (or ex-ministers in their time) use or misuse official government cars and other vehicles for their personal use and even for their family and friends. That form of theft of public funds, is also found when they carry off computers, government stationery and even furniture. I am not thinking of Jeffrey since I can say Jeffrey never did any of those things.
P. Ramlall

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