Bisram, by way of his letter, was rather shortsighted

Mar 18, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

Mr. Vishnu Bisram, a prolific letter-writer and self-styled pollster who resides in America, recently wrote something about Guyanese harbouring ‘a feeling of ingratitude against Washington and lately, of Mr. Trump.’

What exactly he meant is extremely unclear. Nevertheless, what he did tell us is that there are some deeply narrative types imbedded in the Guyanese community in America. On reading Bisram’s letter, what caught my attention was his statement about a ‘feeling of ingratitude of Guyanese towards Washington and Mr. Trump’ which led me to wonder what, and to whom was he referring.

I am led to believe that Bisram, by way of his letter, was rather shortsighted, totally out of order and disrespectful to Guyanese since, for reasons known only to him, in cowardly fashion he did not name any individuals but chose instead to paint all Guyanese with his broad, tainting brush.

I am prepared to give Bisram the benefit of the doubt that his comments were directed to his fellow countrymen in America and not in Guyana. The letter writer’s reference to Guyanese being ungrateful towards America was done in total ignorance and in complete disregard for our experience in the early 1990’s when eight (8) US congressmen and six senators at the time of the Bush administration, raised their voices threatening to cut off US aid to Guyana should President Hoyte not hold free and fair elections in Guyana. In addition, we all know about the major roles played by well known Guyanese along with former President Jimmy Carter in the restoration of democracy in Guyana. Of course, Bisram was not around during those heady days full of excitement and energy so he would have a memory gap concerning that period.

Therefore, as far as I can recollect, and to this day, Guyanese remain grateful for the heavy lifting that was done by all those distinguished persons in America who stood up for Guyana at a time when help was needed. In fact, there is a high degree of continuity where this debt of gratitude is concerned.

It is not surprising therefore that the same sentiment of gratitude prevailed in 2020, when key personalities and operatives in the first Trump administration as well as congressmen and senators issued statements, voicing support or travelled to Guyana to demonstrate their support for the democratically Irfaan Ally administration. Consequently, it is my considered view, that what Bisram wrote is nothing but a classical manifestation of tunnel vision.

What Bisram did was to construct in his own mind, a narrative that in effect was a self-perpetuating, self-serving narrative but one that is blatantly false. It was probably a passing phase of dementia, a hopelessly piecemeal, disorderly logic and approach to the sequence of contemporary events concerning America’s role in the restoration of democracy in Guyana and how appreciative Guyanese are of America’s role in that particular matter. Apparently Mr. Bisram had convinced himself that it was a good thing for him to write such nonsense.

What he wrote about Guyanese being ungrateful towards Washington and President Trump is not only untruthful it is an unparalleled falsity of Guyana’s historiography as regards America’s positive contribution to the Guyanese people’s struggle for free and fair elections from 1992 onwards and equally, the Guyanese people’s reciprocal appreciation for America’s contribution.

And even if it was true that one person or some people, who may have conveyed such an impression, the US-based narrativist is at best, generalising; taking one swallow to make a summer and in that way, seeking to impose on the gullible his Inaccurate description political thought in Guyana. By the way, I haven’t read anything written by Bisram criticizing the new US policies concerning Cuban medical personnel serving in CARICOM member states and the threat to deny visas; nor about the new US trade policy with tariffs and their likely impact on CARICOM member states. So much for Bisram and his concocted narrative.

Yours faithfully,

Clement J. Rohee

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