Freddie Kissoon Writes with Intellectual Dishonesty

Mar 17, 2026 Letters

Dear Editor,

Freddie Kissoon has gleefully written a number of “eulogies” about the closure of the Stabroek News (SN). Since he is not a journalist and therefore was not allowed to write for SN, he obviously became bitter. Incidentally, he was also kicked out of Kaieteur News and even from the University of Guyana. Today he is seen as a propagandist for the People’s Progressive Party, which he has criticised for decades.

I believe he has become a political grasshopper because of his intellectual dishonesty. This dishonesty was recently on display in his column, “Stabroek News has been unmasked by its own admirer” (March 14, 2026), in which he attempted a rebuttal to a letter, which I wrote stating that critics of SN lack substance, fail to conduct any serious content analysis, and simply ramble.

My letter was published under the title “False Criticism of the Stabroek News” in SN on March 13, 2026. In responding to two issues, he mentioned about Stabroek News—its coverage of Palestinians in Gaza and its coverage of the current government—Kissoon changed his original statements after I challenged him with facts. This can be clearly seen if my original letter and Kissoon’s response are examined together. Surprisingly, he accuses me of not putting on my thinking cap and blatantly denying the facts.

Editor, as a former senior journalist in Guyana who reached a senior position in the Communications Section of the CARICOM Secretariat, where I worked for five years, and as someone who continued to write as a journalist in New York and who taught English at the City University of New York for several years, should I take Freddie Kissoon seriously?

Yours truly,
Dhanraj Bhagwandin. B.A, Ms. Ed

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