Party Puffer Freddi Kissoon

Jul 28, 2025 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – The information is readily at hand: George Eliot-The author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner, was born Mary Ann Evans. She adopted the male pseudonym George Eliot to be taken seriously as a novelist in a male-dominated literary world; Mark Twain-Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain became a household name through his novels and short stories. He chose Mark Twain as a pen name that referenced riverboat terminology; George Orwell-The author of 1984 and Animal Farm, was born Eric Arthur Blair. He adopted the pen name George Orwell to distance his personal life from his writing.

So yes, writers frequently use pseudonyms (pen names) for various reasons, including privacy, genre switching, and avoiding confusion with other writers. Some authors use them to distance themselves from their personal lives or to overcome gender bias in publishing.

Hence, I laugh at Guyana’s ‘comic strip’ poseur, Freddie Kissoon, who parades as a columnist, and who now asks “Who has the moral capacity to criticise governance? (https://guyanachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/24/who-has-the-moral-capacity-to-criticise-governance/#:~:text=Who%20has%20the,anonymous%20public%20attacks%3F)

Read his introduction: “Anyone, who has read me the past 36 years would know there is an inflexible journalistic position I have -I will never lose my dignity by replying to someone who is anonymous. I am not anonymous so why should I encourage anonymous public attacks?”

Here is my response. Freddie Kissoon is bereft of a journalistic position and he has never evinced dignity. If one were to take the time and simply switch his target, now the Opposition Collective (parties and people) back to the PPP/C Government, then that will show that his content and style have changed from the attacks he meted out on the PPP/C prior to this present tenure. All through these years, Freddie Kissoon kept cussing out the PPP/C and all he is doing now, is cussing out the PPP/C but calling them the Opposition.

I ask, who has or ever will take him seriously?

Editor, I urge readers to go through the piece, “October 5, 1992 destroyed Guyana; can it be reborn?  (https://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/politics-october-5-1992-destroyed-guyana-can-it-be-reborn-by-freddie-kissoon/#:~:text=Politics%3A%20October%205%2C%201992,failure%20of%20October%205.)

A few excerpts from that piece:

“The revolution on October 5, 1992 deteriorated into partisan, ethnic politics under Cheddi Jagan and his wife, Janet, then in what was to become the first instance of semi-fascism in the English-speaking Caribbean, it climaxed under the depravity of the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal.”

Hence for him, “That is why I think we have to be careful how we treat the significance and importance of October 5. PPP leaders, PPP supporters, PPP Indianized scholars (like the woman who is writing a biography of Mrs. Jagan and is not interested in any critical writings against Mrs. Jagan) will continue to maximize the importance of October 5. Theirs is a narrow interpretation of the event. (as) Hoyte set in motion positive aspects of the rule of law, good governance, ethical values in public service, professional values in the running of the state, dilution of ethnic focus.”

However, for Freddie Kissoon, “October 5 dissolved these important pillars of democracy. And the erosion did not start with Bharrat Jagdeo. It began the day after October 5. All the reclamations of important values that Hoyte recovered for Guyana that were discarded under Burnham were discarded again under Cheddi and Janet Jagan. October 5 has lacerated the legacy of Cheddi Jagan.”

He even says that post-1992, “(Today), Guyana is paying horrifically for the failure of October 5. This is quite damning from Freddie Kissoon regarding the PPP/C.

According to Freddie Kissoon, this ‘horrible PPP/C legacy is being enhanced by President Ali.  Just read Guyana Politics: I feel personally insulted by Irfaan Ali’s Press Conference ((https://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/guyana-politics-i-feel-personally-insulted-by-irfaan-alis-press-conference-freddie-kissoon/#:~:text=Guyana%20Politics%3A%20I,a%20rude%20awakening.)

His opening statement predicts his angst: “Most people are familiar with that old saying, “whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” If I had any respect for Irfaan Ali, he has lost it. If I had any admiration for Irfaan he has lost it. I am referring to his recent press conference in which he appointed Kwame McCoy to direct.

Quickly answer: “Today, for whom is Freddie working and directly under whom?”

Freddie says that “Irfaan has gone mad. The gods have destroyed him. Of course, the gods rendered him incompetent before sending him off to Hades. How perceptive is Ali? The question is he isn’t at all. Just take a fleeting glance at any PPP rally the past three months and you will see handsome and beautiful young people in the crowd, many of whom have university degrees.”

Ponder this elaboration: “Why Irfaan would leave these fine young minds and invite McCoy to chaperone his press conference? You have to ask the question if Irfaan has any common sense. You are a presidential candidate; you need to attract voters. You then have to find aides that would excite those voters. You have to surround yourself with personnel who will bring people to your campaign.”

This was his pronouncement then: “The reliance of the PPP on Kwame McCoy indicated that the PPP leaders will not change their attitude to politics and this country. The no-confidence vote has further driven the fever of invincibility in them. They are in for a rude awakening.”

I rest my case with the questions: “Someone, please show me who is without dignity and principle?” and “Who really woke up?”

By the way, the PPP/C showed a lot of ‘common sense’ in sticking with Kwame; alas, by enslaving Freddie, the party did the opposite.

Yours truly,

Prescott Mann

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• Middlemarch, Party Puffer, Prescott Mann, Silas Marner

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