Hello Stella! What’s cooking? Hey, your slip is showing

Feb 17, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Stella Ramsaroop, Kaieteur News columnist, is in Guyana. She did tell me last November that she would be back for an extended stay in February. Last week, I got a call from Stella asking me to join her for coffee at the Oasis Café. I told her I couldn’t and didn’t want to leave the CD sale that I was at, in Matt’s Record Bar. I went there in the opening hours. I would not have missed that for the world. At ten CDs for a $1000, I had to be there as soon as the door was opened.
After my court case earlier the morning, I went music shopping. I got some fantastic bargains.
Here is what I found and if stocks are still there then find yourself at that place. I got “Pavarotti and Friends – For the children of Bosnia” and “Pavarotti and Friends – For the children of Liberia.” These are fantastic records in which the Italian maestro teamed up with some great pop artists to make great music.
Performers in the duets include Stevie Wonder. Michael Bolton, Nathalie Cole, Jon Bon Jovi, Vanessa Williams, Celine Dion, Eros Ramazatti (an Italian band whose lead singer has an unusually attractive voice). My favourite is the Spice Girl blockbuster, “Viva Forever,” (my daughter’s choice among Spice Girl hits) in which Pavarotti’s arrangement made the song stands out as one of the best in the collection.
Here is what I found too; “The Supremes Remember Sam Cooke,” in which the girl band of yesteryear did twelve of Sam Cooke’s gems. I played the CD in my car last Monday for Kaieteur News colleagues, Rawle Welch and Dale Andrews. I don’t know if the sale is still on. If it is and you like music, then pay a visit. You may want to buy The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays the James Bond Themes” in which the orchestra backs the artists who originally did the songs.
Of course Shirley Bassey is on it. She sang three James Bond themes in which “Goldfinger” and “Diamonds Are Forever” will forever remain pop classics. (The third is “Moonraker.”)
I spent two hours in Matt’s Record Bar because the items were not packed according to genres. A customer has to go through all the shelves. Stella called again. I couldn’t get to Oasis Café because I remembered earlier the morning, I bought meat at Nigel’s Supermarket and it was still in the car in the sun. So I ran out of Matt’s and headed for home.
Stella did say in that conversation that she was in discussion with friends on my article for that day (“Mark Benschop and I go on Trial Today- Feb. 9, 2011). Just to remind you; that piece looked at the convenient activism of some women’s rights activists including Ms. Varshnie Singh.
The criticism Mark Benschop and I made at the anti-violence rally for women at the Georgetown Cricket Club Ground last year was that these leaders in the women’s rights crusade, women like Varshnie Singh, do not want to openly criticize powerful men in the corridors of power who abuse their female partners.
Based on Stella’s admission that she was in discussion on that particular commentary of mine, I anticipated that she would have taken a position on what I wrote in her next column. Instead her piece was titled; “What’s cooking?”
Much to my delight, I see that Stella yesterday did reflect on the “big ones” that harm their wives. But Stella was extremely disappointing in her choice of words. And I must say to Stella, I believe her avoidance was deliberate. She referred to phrases like; “top echelons of society,” “leaders of the community.”
Nowhere in her KN viewpoint yesterday did Stella direct us to descriptions like; “men with political power,” “men in the corridors of power, “governing politicians,” “men in the upper echelons of state power.”
If you employ broad categories like “community leaders,” and upper echelons in society,” then these classifications could well exclude ruling politicians. The term “community leaders” take in church, business and civil society. The picture of “upper echelons” could mean people with money and status.
You need to be more specific and direct Stella. You are capable of such courage. Let me tell you what’s cooking in Guyana Stella. Men with state power or men in the Guyana Government have abused their wives, and some powerful men at that. I know what’s cooking in Guyana, Stella because I am in the kitchen with you.
By the way, Stella darling, I noticed that your slip is showing.

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