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I challenge Freddie Kissoon to publish the writ that I allegedly filed against him
DEAR EDITOR,
I proudly hold aloft the banner of intolerance toward Freddie Kissoon (“I regard Ralph Ramkarran as the third most intolerant leader the PPP has birthed”- KN 23/4/19). The simple reason is that Kissoon, of all columnists in Guyana, is the most notoriously uncomfortable with the truth, aided and abetted by Glenn Lall, publisher, and Adam Harris, editor.
Kissoon has attacked me repeatedly over the past twenty-five years, ad nauseam, with this fictitious story, among many, many others. I have already denied this story in the Kaieteur News. Yet Glenn Lall and Adam Harris allow it to be republished again and again as soon as Kissoon believes that the public has forgotten my denial. Kissoon is like a leach. He sticks to you. Imagine reworking a story repeatedly for twenty-five years, vindictively milking it for traction over and over again.
The truth is that I wrote a letter of demand decades ago to Kaieteur News in connection with an article Kissoon had written about me and sent a draft apology, a normal response to a libel. The Kaieteur News published the apology. That was the end of the matter. But Kissoon’s monstrous ego cannot let it go.
I never sued Kissoon and have said so publicly in the Kaieteur News. Yet Glenn Lall and Adam Harris have allowed Kissoon to repeatedly publish the lie that I sued him. I understand that columnists are given free rein to publish their views. I also understand that their publishers and editors do not, or ought not, to tolerate lies. But Kaieteur News obviously traffics in Kissoon’s lies to advance its sales.
Since Kissoon would have been served with this alleged writ that I allegedly filed against him, I challenge him to publish it. In case he was not served with it, he would know the approximate date it was filed. My knowledge of the workings of the Supreme Court Registry tells me that it would take less than an hour to obtain a copy. I challenge him to seek out a copy and publish it. He boasts the friendship of prominent lawyers who could assist him.
I bet that Kissoon would cowardly decline to take up this challenge. Also, I doubt that Glenn Lall and Adam Harris would act professionally for a change and require Kissoon to apologise for his repeated lies about me in this matter, in which their own paper was involved.
Ralph Ramkarran
EDITOR’S NOTE
It is unfortunate that Mr. Ramkarran has concluded that the publisher, Glenn Lall, and editor, Adam Harris, have encouraged Mr. Kissoon to repeatedly attack and peddle untruths about him. Never has this occurred and never will it.
The assertion that Kaieteur News “obviously traffics in Kissoon’s lies to advance its sales” is far from the truth. It is true that columnists are not dictated to, and while we must accept responsibility for what is published, the newspaper routinely insists that the columnist be factual. Everyone associated with this publication in that capacity has been so advised.
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