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The Police Commissioner, a white baby and the “N word” spoilt my weekend

Feb 09, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Guyana is not for the faint-hearted. It still baffles me how several persons do not drop down with heart collapse when they see and read the things that happened in this land time and God forgot.
Two policemen, Narine Lall and Mohanran Dolai who were never proven innocent of torturing an underage boy were promoted. A sergeant, Alwyn Hoyte promoted to inspector has had his elevation rescinded because of a complaint by Grove businessman, Imran Khan for which he was cleared twice. When you examine the situation of both sets of promotion, either something is wrong with how the Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud sees life or Guyana itself or both.
The two policemen who tortured the little boy have not been exonerated in any meaningful way of the term. Yet Seelall Persaud, speaking about the two policemen involved in the torture, said that they have been exonerated; life must go on. But why life must not go on for Alwyn Hoyte?
Hoyte went through two inquiries conducted by the police. Ranks told me that they suspect the Commissioner himself may have had an interesting hand in the Hoyte controversy when the Commissioner was serving as Crime Chief. I put those questions to Mr. Persaud. He denied it.
I found no evidence to support such an accusation. But there are troubling dimensions about the Hoyte promotion in the context of the Commissioner’s recent support for the promotion of Narine and Dolai. Why openly defend the promotion of the Narine and Dolai and not Hoyte.
The Police Service Commission has said that they need some information from the Police Force about Hoyte’s clearance of disciplinary charges. Why Mr. Persaud does not submit same to them? Something is just not right about the Hoyte thing. And I plan to interview the Commissioner again
If the Police Commissioner’s endorsement of the promotion of two policemen who tortured an underage boy really angered me over the week so did an online newspaper associated with the Government. Let me describe for you briefly how online news agencies operate. When they report of a specific facet of life, they use a “hypothetical” photograph with the news item
If it is crime, they would feature a gun. If a sea defence breach, they would put a photograph of an ocean and it goes like that. The Ministry of Health announced that of 15, 000 babies weighed in 2014, nine percent or 1300 showed excessive weight. A photo accompanied the news item and it was a lily white baby
This is unbelievable and incredible. Why put a white baby? The particular baby was cute, very cute.  Don’t get me wrong. I love babies excessively. In fact I honestly believe that babies are the greatest aesthetic value nature has created (followed by the female gender and animals). Why a lily white toddler in a non-white country?
The obsession with white skin has gone too far in Guyana. It has become morbid and psychically shattering. It will have terrible consequences for this country in decades to come. It will create an extremely culturally and racially sick society.
Imagine a news cast announces overweight babies in Guyana and featured a white baby? How do you explain this psychic death? Now interesting to note is that the owner of the site and the editor he has employed are not even semi-light in complexion. I laughed when I saw this baby thing because a few months ago, Mr. Courtney Crum-Ewing, the lone picketer outside the Attorney-General Office, made some uncomplimentary remarks about this very editor who complained to the entire Google e-mail pool.
Finally, an East Indian journalist told me in the presence of Stan Gouveia of Boom FM, Ivan Betham of the youth arm of the Alliance for Change and social activist, Leonard Craig that she applied to a certain television station, was given an audition and was asked to pronounce fifty words, one of which was the “N word.” She refused
I told her in the presence of Gouveia, Bentham and Craig that to prevent libel she would have to admit publicly what she told me before I could publish in my column what she experienced. She said she is eager to be quoted, thinks what she experienced should be known and is prepared to do so but there is uncertainty in her mind that if and when the retaliation comes, her two small kids would not be targeted.
I plainly told her that without her confirming to my editor that she indeed had to pronounce the “N word” I cannot name her and the station. I guess we have to leave it at  that.

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