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Muse, amused, bemused, confused

Mar 14, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

One of the harsh cruelties of life for me is the acceptance by society worldwide, of people who have achieved fame, eminence, status or wealth and in the process societal recognition. People flock around them, want to be their friends and say positive things about them publicly.
The truth is that many of these names do not deserve the respect that comes their way. They are not the people our children should look up to and we should tell their children about them.
I have one child and I wanted to live to see her grow up so that I could share my life’s experience with her. My soul would have roamed wildly if I had died and didn’t give my daughter a lesson on this aspect of life.
Several times I have lectured to her about the wrong humans of this country that are national figures but are unprincipled, inhumane, deceitful, indecent and dishonest human beings. I don’t have to write an anonymous column to air my opinion on some of the personalities in Guyana whom I think do not deserve the respect of the younger generation.
I refuse to hide my opinion under a false name. The replies to what I have to say can be brutal as if I could be bothered and I will not be scared of using my name that my good parents gave me.
Opinions can be scandalous or they can be within the limit of what the law and social mores allow. The law and civilized values permit me the opinion to say who I respect and don’t. That is an inherent right. I respect and admire Khemraj Ramjattan, Nigel Hughes and Eusi Kwayana. That is my opinion and I have a right to it. I do not respect Gerry Gouveia and Ramesh Dookhoo of the Private Sector Commission (PSC). It is my right to say that.
The PSC took an emotionally charged objection to a column, “Muse or Amuse” that penned some unfavourable paragraphs about Gouveia and Dookhoo recently. One gets some relief from the relentless tragic outpourings of this country by some of the clownish antics of some stakeholders.
Since when is the PSC a patriotic, principled body that our young people take seriously? The PSC in the opinion of this columnist is a waste of time. They have participated in the concretization of oligarchic and tyrannical governance in this country for which they should be denounced and unfortunately “Muse or Amuse” did it using a hidden name.
I sat in the UG Council with Ramesh Dookhoo and I say most unapologetically, that he is not modern material for this country and for that reason he should not have been in the leadership of the PSC but then again what is the PSC.
He struck me as a person more willing to support the PPP Government rather than policies that would be in Guyana’s interest. I remember once in the UG Council, that he chose not to support the upping of the retirement age from 60 to 65 (at most, if not all universities, the retirement age is beyond seventy).
I turned to him and told him that he had a boss at Banks DIH who was seventy-four. He was visibly angry as if I cared. This same Dookhoo as PSC chairman supported the cruel uprooting of over 100 Stabroek Market Square vendors. It was hypocritical for Banks DIH to retain him at the company after this because this beer company makes an enormous amount of profits selling beer at that square.
When it comes to Gouveia, I want APNU Parliamentarian James Bond to know that I will oppose him on the platform when local government elections come around. I told Bond to his face that he should not have accepted an invitation from Gouveia to investigate how one of Gouveia’s employees was held for cocaine at the airport. APNU did not sanction Bond and the same Bond turned up at Agricola to talk to irate citizens of over a police shooting.
Gouveia openly challenged me to prove that his acquisition of Duke Lodge from Jagdeo was not above board and if I do he would sell the property. My demand was that the proceeds go to the three treason accused at the time. I won Gouveia and to this day despite public requests to honour his covenant with me, he hasn’t.
I am happy to see that since the PSC condemned “Muse or Amuse” the columnist has struck back and did another trenchant piece on the beastly nature of the PSC. Why is the Transparency Institute in discussion with those jokers?

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