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Perhaps Mr. Kissoon has some other quote/reference of my saying
DEAR EDITOR,
In his column, “No-confidence vote and the two-year gamble,” last Sunday (August 10, 2014), Mr. Freddie Kissoon, stated of me:
“He wrote a few years back in a letter to the Stabroek News that he does not believe that either the PNC or the PPP Government has done an act that was deliberately designed to hurt another section of the population or another group. You can accuse Jeffrey of being naïve. I don’t think he is. It is simply, he cannot bring himself to see government behaving like that, so such a concept he will not apply in his research.”
I believe that I had occasion to correct Mr. Kissoon on this point before (“Dr. Henry Jeffrey responds to Freddie Kissoon:” KN: 29/03/2011) and what I actually said was that:
“I do not believe that our country is in this condition because over the last half a century our politicians have been wicked and intended this kind of backwardness. We simply have a governmental framework, rooted in ethnicity, which is deleterious to any massive improvements in our standard of living.” (“Circumstances are what we make of them:” SN: 29/01/2010)
I like to quote and reference when dealing with what people said, particularly, if my interpretation of their position can be construed as critical. Perhaps Mr. Kissoon has some other quote/reference of my saying what he claimed I said.
Henry B. Jeffrey
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