Contrasting destinies: Cheddi Jagan and Monica Reece

Apr 05, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Last week, I wrote a column about our midnight visit to Cane Grove to see the dust nuisance from a nearby rice silo. After an hour, I had seen what I came to. The other members of my group were engrossed with conversations with the villagers. Boredom came along so I walked away from the crowd and sat at a desolate spot by a nearby trench thinking about how the people of this country are so badly mistreated and they take it.
It was late at night in an isolated village without street lamps. I wasn’t afraid because though I was in the dark, there was a huge crowd not too far behind. The driver of an SUV dropped off a young girl who I presumed was his girl friend.
As he turned his vehicle around, his bright beams illuminated me. Curious to see this solitary figure in the dark, he came up to me. As he pushed his face towards mine, he recognized me and said, “Hi Mr. Kissoon.”
He knew why I was there so the conversation turned to the dust problem. I wasn’t interested in that. I was there. I saw it. We filmed it. I wanted to ramble on other topics. It turned out that this man fell into a category of human beings that take their secrets to the grave.
People like cooks, maids, chauffeurs, guards, bell boys and secretaries see and know so much but they never enter the limelight. They remain ordinary people who will never talk what they know about the rich, famous and powerful because they know there is no one to protect them so they just lock those things away forever.
Secrets should never go to the grave. It is an established fact that J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual. In those days, homosexuality was such a crime that powerful politicians would definitely lose their jobs if they were caught because it was felt that their lovers could successfully blackmail them.
Details about Hoover’s sexuality came out long before his biography was published. We know about it because the relatives of his lovers talked.
This gentleman in Cane Grove saw a lot given the public sector job he recently had. I am not going to describe his previous occupation because he could be easily traced. I don’t want to have his death on my conscience. But I will give readers a clue by referring you to the category I just enumerated above. It is so hard to take that he will carry what he knew about the nastiness of power to his grave. I hope not. He is a young man in his early thirties.
I think we should be grateful to Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine for admitting that in the seventies the WPA was accumulating arms to confront the Burnham administration. Many loyal followers of Dr. Rodney are mad with this revelation because they are afraid of the analysis that would follow – if Rodney wanted to remove Burnham by violence then naturally Burnham had a right to fight back.
Those still around in the WPA should tell us who they think was the mole in the WPA that resulted in the death of Rodney, Ohene Koama and the imprisonment of David Hinds. There was a mole right in the middle of the WPA leadership. I think I know who that person is.
What we know we should make into public knowledge once we do not get murdered or sued. In present day Guyana, it is easy to get both. I know my brother “Lightweight” Kissoon did violent things for the PPP at the beginning of the sixties when he was a fanatical PYO youth. One incident involved the attempt to kill a famous media operative at the time. His very close partner at the time, Harold Snagg, is still alive. Harold refuses to discuss that period with me.
Those of us in the media who have been around a long time know who killed Monica Reece. I have never kept my secrets to myself I have told people close to me. By the way, the main Peeper knows I know who he is.
The tragedy of Monica Reece rests in the grave of President Cheddi Jagan. President Jagan should have ordered foreign experts to catch the killer. It was clear to all Guyanese that the police were not interested and were compromised by the killer. It was the obligation of President Jagan to see that justice was done. He never did.

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