The Granger/Nagamootoo team has to put an end to Rickey Singh’s “eyepass.”

Jun 20, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

What is going through the mind of Mark Ramoutar the Chronicle editor and Rickey Singh, the Chronicle’s paid weekly columnist? How can humans behave so shamelessly?
From the time the PPP came to power in 1992, Rickey Singh has been the Sunday columnist with the Chronicle. Mr. Singh has become a virtual propagandist for the PPP Government the past twenty-three years. What passes for commentary in the Rickey Singh column is boring praise for the PPP every week.
Singh is consistent in his demonization of African Guyanese and the PNC in his commentaries. Like the rest of the Indian supremacists in the just concluded national election, he took the apan jaat route and urged a vote for the PPP because the alternative was a return to the PNC and back to the days of rigged elections.
Mr. Singh didn’t even pen a half of a word on Jagdeo’s racist incitement during the 2015 election campaign.
If any ruling party in the CARICOM region had descended to the level of blatantly racist demagoguery as Jagdeo did, Rickey Singh wouldn’t have missed the occasion to point some accusing fingers. In his syndicated column, Singh has chastised every Caricom Government since he began writing for the Chronicle, but in those twenty-three years there hasn’t been even one article critical of the PPP Government.
In his column last Sunday, Singh was particularly egregious in his hateful tirade against the PNC. Singh is still transfixed on the PPP in power. Psychologically, Singh still cannot come to face with the reality that the PPP is out of power.
His offerings continue in his usual style of treating the PNC as a pariah. Singh doesn’t speak of APNU but the PNC. His commentary last Sunday was about the PNC, not APNU. There are four observations that characterize his commentary. First, the PNC has won the election without using “its enormous skill of rigging.” Secondly, the PPP came close to retaining power even with the fiddling of the election results.
Thirdly, there are calls in the local media for the PNC to hold free and fair elections inside the PNC. Fourthly, Basil Williams, the Attorney-General, could hardly be concerned with the just concluded rigged National Elections or even rigged election in his own party because he, Williams, is taken up with the matter of disbanding the Rodney Commission. He ended his piece by saying Patricia Rodney has spoken out against the ending of the Commission.
Do the Guyanese people have to continue to put up with the rambling asininities of Rickey Singh for which he is paid by taxpayers’ money? Shouldn’t Singh do the decent thing and end his PPP propaganda in the Chronicle because time has moved on, his benefactors have lost the election and Singh no longer has a reason for writing in the Chronicle?
To think that Mark Ramoutar, the Chronicle Editor who should have been peremptorily dismissed a month ago, passed that column by Singh is beyond shocking. Why is the Granger/Nagamootoo administration keeping Ramoutar as Editor and Singh as commentator? Not even Obama would have retained Ramoutar.
Three other repellent aspects of that last column by Singh need to be dwelled on. One is Singh’s assertion that there have been calls in the local media since the 2015 elections for the PNC to hold free and fair elections inside the PNC itself. I am accusing Singh of lying. A Google search has revealed no such item. I used several combinations of words in my Google search and I cannot find anything. I went to all the local newspapers and internet news sites on Guyana from Wednesday, May 13 to Saturday, June 13 and there is nothing to go on. Singh is lying.
Secondly, why should the Attorney-General be concerned with rigged National Elections in the year 2015? What is the relevance of rigged National Elections? Because Singh is implying that the 2015 National Election was not free and fair. That is why he stated that the PPP was close to winning even with the fiddling of the official results (his words).
Rickey Singh deliberately failed to mention that not one organization that observed the 2015 poll has even hinted of any irregularity. All declared the election free and legal in its substance.
Finally, Singh told readers that Mrs. Patricia Rodney has spoken out against ending the Rodney Commission. An extensive Google search has not come up with any such statement from Rodney. If Mrs. Rodney has spoken such words, where is it; in which media? This 79-year-old journalist is lying.

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