The Dantean purgatory in Guyana is bottomless

Aug 26, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I didn’t expect it; never thought about it. But it happened. I got several telephone calls and e-mails inundating me with more examples of Dantean darkness as a response to my Sunday column (“Guyana: Journey into the chasm of Dantean darkness.”). For those who didn’t catch that article, it was an enumeration of the most incredibly backward things that happened and are occurring in this awfully tragic and ancient country.
I did that column without resort to research. You don’t need the research. The oceans of gory details of the sad caricature that this country is just tumble out of your head. You live in Guyana since the Jagdeo days and you don’t need the research. There is so much to remember, so much to see. However, I was stunned by the mountain of abnormalities and contortions given to me with the words, “Freddie yuh lef dese out.”
It was truly amazing what I left out and I admit should have been included in any list of venalities and madness that characterize the incompetence and depravity of the PPP reign.
One caller yelled out, “Freddie you is a joker or what; yuh left out “Killaman,” he don’t exist in another country.” An e-mail exclaimed, “Freddie you getting old boy, the Jagdeo wife thing would not and cannot happen in another country.”
Here are some of the omissions given to me over the weekend. There are too numerous to carry in the space of a column and I have done away with reminders that I have published often. For example; the “Killaman” tales, the Jagdeo/Varshnie Singh scandal, a Minister telling the press he does illegal things, the Henry Green indiscretions, the abominations at the Georgetown Hospital, Clement Rohee visa mystery, the Nirmal Rehka duty free investigation etc.
One e-mail sender thinks that any mention of how unfortunate Guyana has become, the electricity rates must be given highlighted space. She contends that Guyana’s electricity rates are the highest in the world. I haven’t done a comparison, but in her e-mail she asserts it is the highest. Who am I to question her and I strongly believe she may be right. After all, we are talking about a hell-hole named Guyana.
Another e-mail took me back to an article I wrote years ago in which the relatives of a dead man came home to Essequibo to give him a funeral only to find his rotting corpse outside the mortuary – the freezer had broken down months ago. What was sickening is that many bodies were left outside the mortuary because that was the only place to store them in Essequibo.
There is one of the leading judges in this country that the lawyer of Roger Khan admitted was in contact with Khan, while Khan was hiding out in Suriname. In the revelations of Khan’s lawyer, Robert Simels, the judge is referred to as the “Oracle.” Media people talk among themselves that “the Oracle” was in contact by phone with Khan 35 times.
I was glad a reader jogged my memory on this one, because it proves what an abandoned outpost Guyana is. Khan got fifteen years in jail. Simels got fourteen. But the “Oracle” still sits on the bench in Guyana. Now in which other country could that happen? It is so unfortunate that the “Oracle” cannot be identified and I feel badly that I am hamstrung in not naming him, but I do tell select people when they ask me.
Early Monday morning. I was buying a sweet cake I like very much sold by Banks DIH outlets named T-ring. (Anand Sanasie, Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board, sent his driver to buy T-ring and he came back empty-handed saying that the Banks DIH sales girl told him they don’t sell key rings; obviously he asked for key-ring instead of T-ring) when this nice lady engaged me in conversation on the Sunday column .
She said she agreed with my description of the primitive mess Guyana is in, but wanted to know why billionaires still invest in such a dark land. My explanation was these super-rich people do not have to endure the Dantean madness that has drowned Guyana. The rich people and their children do not get detained by the police. They in fact own the police. They do not shop in Guyana. They do not spend six months in Guyana. They are always out. And their money is sent out. And this is because they know that Guyana is a graveyard.

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