Kumar’s appointment is further evidence of Cheddi Jagan’s bankrupt politics

Jul 31, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to Neil Kumar’s abusive and personal attack on me in his Friday letter (KN). Kumar has to be the biggest fool in the world if he thinks that his scurrilous pen will deter me from exposing his vulgar style.
It had to be a faulty politician like Cheddi Jagan to appoint one like Kumar as the Sports Director of this country. At the time, Kumar knew nothing of sports in Guyana and still doesn’t. Maybe we should move from ignorance in sports to ignorance in general.
Unfortunately, Kumar’s limitation does not allow him to pursue intellectual understanding of arguments. Let me repeat the essential points in my column that dealt with the three public swimming pools.
One- Kumar said the Colgrain pool’s hours had to be shortened because it was going all day and night. This was never true.
Two- there will be restricted use of the pool to make it last longer. Mr. Kumar has not responded this abysmal ignorance. How can any human being say that a swimming pool’s use should be curtailed so as to prolong its life?
A hotel guest is entitled to swim any hour of the 24 hour period. So have the Pegasus and Hotel Tower structures collapsed after more than thirty five years in existence? When last Kumar saw them? Are all the other hotel pools in the world facing their end? Shows what type of person Kumar is. Someone who should not be in the position he currently serves in.
Three – I pointed out that under the PNC, there was a swimming pool (Lookoo’s) that was public in every sense of the word. Any citizen could just enter, pay a small fee and jump in. Lookoo’s was like the Botanic Gardens and the National Park. You just walk in.
The PPP Government has three facilities – Colgrain, Castellani, and the Olympic – and there has been no word that they will be open to the public on a walk in basis.
This is nonsense and the sports community and the Guyanese people should demand that one of these amenities serve the public as any other recreational centre, like parks and gardens.
How foolish it is for Kumar to barefacedly tell us that under the PNC, only he elites could have swam at Colgrain. This is the identical situation at Castellani. But you want to know why the power elites chose to lock off Castellani when they have access to a private indoor convenience at Pradoville One.
The rumour is that the mansion where that pool is located is partially owned by a powerful politician. In fact, Ed Ahmad, when he is Guyana, always uses that structure when he hangs out with his chief patron. His chief patron is the big dictator. Wild parties are held at that indoor pool.
The PPP people are never without their asininities. Kumar told us that Cheddi Jagan swam with the ordinary man. S
o did Sir Jock Campbell, the head of Bookers in British Guiana, Forbes Burnham, Hamilton Green, Walter Rodney, a young Eusi Kwayana, and scores of other eminent political leaders. The reference to Jagan only shows Mr. Kumar’s lack of refined thinking.
Finally, I will wait to see how the sporting bodies of Guyana respond to Kumar’s letter in which the language is sickening, dirty, and morally filthy.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I write for Kaieteur News, I would have sued him. I am actually surprised that KN allowed such language to be published.
You read Kumar’s correspondence and you will notice at the bottom that he signed his name a Director of Sports, you know then that Guyana has become a failed state.
I ask every reader to peruse that missive (“A response to Freddie Kissoon,” KN, Friday, July 29) and tell me if a country deserves to be a modern one when the Director of Sports can write like that.
Before we go, let’s quote Kumar, “The National Sports Commission is concerned with high standards and professionalism.”
Kumar’s response has everything in it except high standards and professionalism. As I always say, “It could only happen in Guyana.”
Frederick Kissoon

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