No choice but to ‘lick his own vomit.’

Jul 17, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – The bedlam has seemingly been unbolted, and one, named Freddie Kissoon, is now ‘let-loose’ and running wild. In his July 15, 2023, Chronicle relegation, he asks “Where does Ms. Raghubir’s methodology leave journalism?” Freddie detailed that “I will ask readers to read this quote from Ms. Raghubir, and then juxtapose it with my position on Ms. Raghubir. I called Ms. Raghubir for a comment on what I considered the endangerment of the press when one of the country’s leading newspapers, the Stabroek News (SN), refused to carry the letters of a highly-rated Guyanese scholar, Professor Randolph Persaud, who is an adviser to the President of Guyana.”

Well, here is my take.

Since when did Professor Randolph Persaud become “… a highly-rated Guyanese scholar, who is an adviser to the President of Guyana.”

I ask Freddie this question, because back in Jul 24, 2010, he titled a piece: “Where does the PPP get these people from?” And who is one of these people?

Read on.

“One of the common questions asked about the PPP, and I hear this from their own supporters, is “Where the government gets these people from?” The list is long. Randy Persaud comes to mind. Brought to Guyana to do propaganda work, Persaud couldn’t string together a series of concepts, wrap them up in sound analysis and produce a final package of intellectual ribbons.

School boys could have debated Persaud and made him look shallow. While going through his comical rituals, Persaud produced a curriculum-vitae that was longer than the Essequibo River, but to many it resembled Andy Capp’s certificate he used in an argument with Fred Flintstone.

Wow! Wow!

Freddie went on to berate and belittle Randy, saying that, “While he was in Guyana, Persaud made you laugh alright. I like the one he threw at me. That will remain in political debate in this country for a long time to come. Persaud replied to one of my KN pieces and accused me of being disrespectful to the President because I wrote a column about Mr. Jagdeo’s third term ambition. Raging with anger, Persaud yelled out: “Didn’t you hear the President said he is not interested in a third term. You must apologise to the President.”

Persaud is gone (of course he is back now). This month, he packed up his bags and left to add up more years on the forty years he has been outside of Guyana. While here, Persaud refused to state his designation. To date, he hasn’t told us why he left. (However) This writer (Freddie Kissoon) knows and did promise to publish the reasons. Some delicacy and sensitivity are involved so I will have to know how to frame my paragraphs. To Freddie, I say that we are still waiting. Also, what took place to metamorphose Randy Persaud into such an esteemed scholar that he is no longer a lackey doing ‘fluff propaganda’ not worthy of a high chook audience?

And in closing, since “… it is downright unacceptable that Ms. Raghubir, who is the head of the press association, cannot offer a comment to a fellow media practitioner, who has been in the business for 35 years. She had to have and at the moment, she must have an opinion on why a presidential adviser could not get his letters published in the Stabroek News.

Answer first, Freddie about your U-turn on Randy Persaud, and also why the Chronicle, now your refuge, but once your gutter paper, is not publishing anti Government letters.

By the way, will Freddie Kissoon be on the PPP/C campaign trail come next elections. I can imagine the risibility he will provoke wherever he surfaces.

Yours truly,
Gaylord Riley

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