No need to sling mud on Freddie Kissoon

May 08, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I am exercising my right to respond to this ongoing series of Frederick Kissoon who launched an attack on me. Reference is made to his column in Kaieteur News, “Jagdeo’s libel, Nigel Hughes, my research, my life” (6th May 2020). Let me advise Kissoon whereas he said he has no respect for me “as a person and a trade unionist,” this would be hard for him to do.

When it comes to respect the feeling is mutual with my fellow pensioner. He is not upright and any little respect I had for him, I lost it a long time. He was tolerated because our paths crossed on common issues even though I am of the opinion that he is a bully, disrespectful and untrustworthy.

I had respect for him as an intellectual but that has changed. Which proper so-called champion of the people would steal academic material, depriving the less fortunate who would have been relying on said material for their academic advancement?

He had no shame telling this nation he stole textbooks and felt it was ok to so do, showing no regret, no remorse. He has no shame telling this nation GECOM Chairperson Justice Claudette Singh volunteered to and paid his “whopping grocery bill” but he continues to attack her integrity even as she engages in efforts to facilitate a recount to resolve the political impasse. He has said, “Since March 4, Singh has destroyed her legal legacy and her national credibility” (25th March, 2020- Claudette Singh paid for my groceries and I was convinced).

He is not qualified to judge people in the way he wants to do. In our society, he is allowed to shout at the top of his voice, passing judgment on people. I am too decent for him and knew it all along. In his usual style, he misrepresents some facts. I may not know the day-to-day operation of UG or other institutions but when it comes to industrial relations, I am well versed.

His service at UG was not terminated due to Labour’s representation on the Council. I was the representative. The management oversight of due process, which yours truly pointed out, caused the Council not to recommend the severing of his service. His hide was saved by the UG upholding time-honoured principles.

Freddie is not a confidential person. Even when people talk to him in private, he puts it out in public but he wants others to keep his secret when he can’t keep other people’s issue secret. He has no secret for me. I never trusted him and anything I said to him in private, I had no problem with him coming to the public with. Readers of his column could recall the numerous times personal conversation people shared with him he placed in the public domain.

Finally, let me say to Freddie, there is no need for me to “paint [his] character with mud”. There is no need to sling mud on him. As to the recent industrial impasse at UG, it is a matter of public record, which he shared, of the role he played.

Lincoln Lewis

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