Ms. Jaya Manickchand’s post also reveals a bigoted perception of crime

Oct 20, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
“I am happy they [the three suspected bandits killed by the Police] are dead and I don’t care about the details of a post-mortem. In fact why is the state even wasting money on them? My sentiment would be the same for all murderers and thieves.”
These are not the words of some uneducated idiot uttered in some late-night rum shop conversation. No, it is a direct quote from the Facebook page of Ms. Jaya Manickchand, an attorney-at-law and Member of the Guyana Elections Commission. As an attorney-at-law Ms. Manickchand, on petitioning the court for admission as an attorney, pledged to serve the people of Guyana according to the law, including that special law called the constitution. Now that she believes that some classes of Guyanese are not entitled to the constitutional guarantee of presumption of innocence, the right to life and to due process, she is no longer fit to practise law in the Guyana courts, the watchdog of the Constitution.
Equally it seems, Ms. Manickchand believes that the Guyana Police Force must have the same powers as say, the South African police of the Apartheid-era who were free to torture, incarcerate or kill at will, immune from the law, once the victim was a poor black person. She is clearly advocating a warped, dangerous and frightening sense of what the law should be.
Ms. Manickchand’s post also reveals a bigoted perception of crime: one that does not consider corruption in its egregious forms such as Pradoville 2, or the appropriation of state resources by the political class for its members, as crime. I doubt that she even thinks of a minister of government using a gun to inflict terror on another person as a crime, or the heist of Guyana for a few. For her, no doubt, crime is exclusive to a certain class, its perpetrators without rights, fit only as target practice for the police and vigilantes.
It is frightening that a member of the ruling political class could be so lacking in ordinary human feeling as to have such a sentiment, and so arrogant as to express that feeling to the world. But it is a measure of the depth to which Guyana and its institutions have sunk that she can brazenly display such tendencies and remain a member of the Bar and of the Guyana Elections Commission.
Christopher Ram

9 thoughts on “Ms. Jaya Manickchand’s post also reveals a bigoted perception of crime”

Cockspur October 20, 2013 at 9:56 am

Well what can one say this Manickchand cabal within the larger cabal is a cacophony of dullards.
Jaya Manickchand October 20, 2013 at 9:59 am

@Christopher Ram. It is not surprising that you
chose to write on a selected part of what I said in threads discussing my comment, since your writings are, in my view, politically motivated and often mischievous. I am not a politician. I am a Guyanese citizen who has a right to the freedom of speech. The last time I checked the Constitution of Guyana did
not change. I expressed MY opinion on a serious issue. YOU have every right to differ in your opinion.

As a decent citizen, public personality and Lawyer, you should not deliberatelymislead the readers and one would imagine after all this time of writingnonsense, you would have developed the
skill to be clear enough and well researched to write coherently and factual material.

Ram did not get the said quote off of my facebook page. I do not have Ram as afriend. This was my comment on a thread on someone else’s facebook page.

Secondly, Ram, one phone call to your friend/s at GECOM would have made youaware that I resigned from my post as Commissioner a while now.

Thirdly, I am not a member or part of any political party, I chose to and stillproudly support the PPP/Civic. If you and other like persons are in the hierarchy of other political parties, the options for Guyanese are quite daunting.

Fourthly, do not go assuming that you know what I think or I believe. This is not about a particular class as you put it, Even in your quote you claimed I stated “ALL” hence I could not have been referring to any one class.Your analysis leaves much to be desired. For ME, it matters not what class you are from, religion or race. If you are caught in the commission of a Murder or
robbery ( especially under arms) or found guilty thereof, I believe that the death penalty should be applied ( as
draconian as it sounds). If you are found in the commission of a rape or guilty thereof, your penis should be cut off. If someone opens fire on the Police force or any other person, the Police and that other Person have all right by law to protect themselves….These Ram are some of my views, a simple phonecall to me, would have, hopefully, cured your defective analysis. Something you should always remember, it is always best practice to get your facts and do your research. It is known that assumption is the mother of all ” eff -ups”. Let me state emphatically that I am AGAINST Extra judicial killings.

NOW, for the Readers, Ram’s article is based, in short, on me stating MY opinion on the ( 3 bandits that were recently killed in the vicinity of KVC, South Road) on someone’s face book page. This was a comment to a thread that I find unbelievable and in my view, treating these deadly bandits as “wronged citizens”. On this occasion, I chose to believe the police’s version
as compared to the eye witnesses’ version and because I have a different opinion from another section of this society, it makes me somehow “callous” and “arrogant” amongst other titles that some persons are giving me. These bandits were no alter boys on the road that night looking for Holy Water or to buy bread for Sunday mass. I stand by what I believe. And OH, how I wish, that persons of differing views are as vocal for the rights of
those who are murdered at the hands of these types of criminals, especially.

To know the true Lallbachan “Christopher” Ram, readers may wish to google search “Chris Ram’s dviorce” or if you have time go the Supreme Court Registry and ask for action number 2001 177/D Demerara. You should also know Ram, that I have just
as strong similar views on men/ women who physically beat up and abuse their wives/ husbands and children.

It appears to me that a certain section of the society defends and allows criminality because it suits their political or financial agenda. To you I say, evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Finally Ram, it appears that you have idle time to write trash on a daily basis. I suggest that you should consider volunteering in depressed communities so that you can try to save these “alter boys”. I do not recommend that you provide voluntary legal services based on the research and analysis
displayed in this letter to the editor.
With regards,

Jaya Manickchand

Concerned Citizen of Guyana/

Attorney-at-Law
1. GtYouth October 21, 2013 at 8:10 pm
  
  i sure i will not hire you for any legal advice Madam
2. Cockspur October 22, 2013 at 8:12 pm
  
  Where the comment was made whether it was on a newspaper on your facebook page or someone else page is irrelevant.
  
  Your comments are inappropriate and flat out disgusting.
3. RogerWilli October 23, 2013 at 12:30 am
  
  This is an astonishing response which I had to save, if only because it
  appears to have been written in haste … and may now be “regretted” at
  leisure.
  
  That the focus now seems not to be on things that were
  actually written by the parties involved, but instead invites an inquiry
  into private lives is … interesting! Three initial possibilities
  arise.
  
  With regard to the statement “… I have just as strong
  similar views on men/ women who physically beat up and abuse their
  wives/ husbands and children…” it would be interesting to see/hear
  Jaya’s take on Varshnie Jagdeo’s torment.
  
  So, with regard to the statement “… It appears to me that a certain section of the society defends and
  allows
  criminality because it suits their political or financial agenda….”,
  it would be interesting to hear Jaya’s take on Kaieteur news’ “The Heist
  of Guyana”
  (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/09/22/the-heist-of-guyana-4/ ;
  and
  https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/images/2013/10/THE-MARRIOT-PUZZLE-PG.-10-OCT.-18-FOR-WEB.jpg
  ).
  
  Finally, regarding the statement “… evil triumphs when
  good men do nothing …” (I assume Jaya means women as well), it would
  be interesting to hear Jaya’s take on who, exactly, in Guyana has done
  more than Christopher Ram to fight the “evil” that exists in our
  country. More to the point, it would be instructive if she could
  document what she herself has done
  (as compared to Ram, or otherwise) in that regard.
  
  Now there are six other issues in this statement by Jaya Manickchand that are extremely troubling …
Ramgobin October 20, 2013 at 11:54 am

Masterful argument! These Manickchand gyals ent deh down hey. Dem mek dem cuss down market women look like angels .
RogerWilli October 20, 2013 at 5:06 pm

So where is the surprise here? Kean Gibson detailed the origin, process and outcome of that “Manickchand mentality” in the book “Cycle of Racial Oppression in Guyana”. We visited the net outworking of that iconoclastic work in “Greed, Genocide … and now ‘Green’: Corruption and Underdevelopment in Guyana”. Yet again, the issue resolved itself to “ideological racism” in “Frederick Kissoon and Ideological Racism in Guyana”. The words of Christopher Ram and Lincoln Lewis are an eloquent testimony to the status quo in Guyana.
1. Immi October 21, 2013 at 4:45 pm
  
  If you propagate sentiments long enough silly persons will begin to believe them. This is what you, Gibson and others of your racist mindset seek to do. It would appear that you have now indoctrinated a few sheep into following your destructive, divisive, bitter thought pattern with repetititive captions touting your superiority and alleging at the same time others are feeling superior if they dare question your nonsense. People like you create more problems and feelings of victimization in a nation that is tired of the racial divisiveness being propagated by a few.
kroo October 21, 2013 at 10:32 pm

while the comment does not appear well coming from a layer, i couldn’t help sharing them. As expected christopher ram merrily jumped on manikchand but he was eerily silent when all the innocent business men and women in regions three and six were brutalised by. Criminal in the recent past. Am i to believe that ram is in some association with these criminals. Well mr ram majority of guyana feels the way manikchand feels but r either afraid or dont want to say so.