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Aug 24, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
If someone sends a letter to the newspaper outlining the contours of a technical issue that is currently in the media, commonsense will instruct everyone that such a person has to have a working knowledge of the field. Last week, I wrote a column critical of Prem Misir’s condemnation of UG’s Strategic Plan.
I accused Misir of hypocrisy, because it was during his chairmanship of the Council of the University and the Vice-Chancellorship of the PPP point man at UG, Dr. James Rose, that the Strategic Plan was invented and shaped. I am a member of the highest decision-making body at UG, the Council of the University, and I sat through all the deliberations and the final acceptance of the document by Misir and Rose
In other words, the Strategic Plan was the work of Misir and Rose. Now that there is a new Vice Chancellor that isn’t playing the game of the Government, Misir is the propagandist that is designated to criticize his Government’s own plan. The next day, someone sent a letter to this newspaper with the signature, Mavis Lawrence.
Mavis Lawrence gave an account of the history of the Strategic Plan and provided details of its contours and heaped praise on Dr. Misir’s role during the discussion of the plan when he was chairman of the Council of the University.
It means one of two things. And it can only mean one of two things. Mavis Lawrence is someone connected to the University, or is connected to the area of work that Misir functions in, so she can know these fine details about the document. Finding Mavis isn’t hard in a small country like this.
A search revealed that no one by that name ever worked at UG. Secondly, there is no Mavis Lawrence in the Office of the President, Ministry of Education or Ministry of Finance. And there is no Mavis Lawrence in the telephone directory and the list of registered voters. I checked. Who then is Mavis Lawrence to know so much about what takes place at the University of Guyana and is so acquainted with the work of Prem Misir?
I can’t find Mavis. But my sources, some of whom are fairly reliable, told me that there is a man that writes in support of the Government all the time using fictitious signatures, most carrying female first names. The letters are always sent to the Chronicle. He is the one that wrote the infamous Mavis Lawrence piece. I am told he is short, dyes his hair black every two weeks and is homosexual. The personal details may not be important. What I can’t understand is why the use of a fictitious signature. And who cares in this country who is homosexual?
Next there is Pedro Archandro. He is from Brazil. He fled the country after his third conviction of sodomy with underage boys. He came to Guyana and was warmly greeted by certain members of the political elites. He continued his pedophilia in Guyana. I wrote about him and, additional to other acts he committed, he left Guyana hurriedly.
In 2009, in an exchange with Mr. Ralph Ramkarran in the Stabroek News’ letter pages about me stealing books from the National Library when I was sixteen, Pedro Archandro jumped in the middle of my confrontation with Ramkarran. He wrote a letter stating that he knows that every country I went to, I stole books. Mr. Ramkarran had ammunition with which to fight me. He cited Archandro’s letter and called upon me to own up to the books I stole in the countries I lived in. Strangely, Mr. Ramkarran believed Archandro.
Archandro and the short man who dyes his hair belong to a large school of pro-Government propagandists who are constant letter-writers for the Chronicle using female first names. What I can’t understand is why they use female appellations? Go back to the Chronicle ten years ago, and add up the names of those daily letter-writers that are “Guyanese” but not included in the census, cannot be found in the telephone directories (over those ten years) and are not on the electoral roll, maybe they run way beyond 250, 000.
When you think that the Chronicle has invented 250,000 jumbies in the past ten years to support the Government in its letter pages, then the PPP Government must be the most unpopular regime in the world. These people are so stupid. The entire population knows about the GINA factory of fictitious names. The Chronicle has to be gutter’s nastiest inhabitant.
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