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Freddie Kissoon column - Elected dictatorship and mockery
Two mockeries have descended on the land of Guyana within one day. On the same day that President Jagdeo announced that the acting Head of CANU would be dismissed because he failed a lie detector test, PM Hinds stated that Guyana may not be ready for the Freedom [...]

In Guyana one can clearly see the connection between social dishevelment and visionless, lackluster, uninspiring and jejune leadership. When leadership is driven by nationalist instincts, then progress is inevitable. What it means is that rulers are motivated by love of country.
Sadly in Guyana, the way our party system evolved, power instincts took the place of [...]

Across two continents at the same time, two presidents were addressing the problems of their respective countries using different methodologies.
The dissimilarities in political styles and political approaches to the use of power typify the essential differences between the politics of the developed, industrial West and the Third World.
In Guyana, in a speech to the annual [...]

There are some expressions of life that we encounter, and they make us wonder about the character of those who want to lead us to the Promised Land. They shock us. They amaze us. But in the end we come to accept that life is a paradox, hard as that is to accept. Guyana’s contemporary [...]

Public intellectuals and violent gunmen
Let me dwell on the evasiveness of Ravi Dev by first making two assertions. One is that I would never deny any Guyanese who live outside, their right to live in this country and speak on behalf of it. George Bernard Shaw once wrote that “Patriotism is your conviction that this [...]

Power has moral dimensions: The Channel 6 fiasco
In a letter to the Stabroek News two Sundays ago, I made the point that Mr. Jagdeo does not know anything about politics. Space didn’t permit me to elaborate. When one speaks about politics, one is not referring to the broad spectrum of politics. Everything is political, and [...]

I hope Dr. Randy Persaud does not take it personally (I am just being polemical) when I say that he made the right choice in that he and his family live in the US, where he teaches at an American university. He chose not to settle down with his qualifications in a Third World country. [...]

Dear Editor,
I was tempted after a more recent event has come to pass, to admit that the Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, was almost right - even strangely prophetic: he had interpreted my reconciliation with the PPP’s government and party leadership as an act of political suicide.
Before I could do so, my attention was drawn [...]

Ravi Dev has the temerity to quote Barack Obama
When I reached a certain part of what is now one of the most famous speeches by a politician in modern history — Senator Barack Obama’s delivery on race as his reaction to those who claimed that his church preacher, Rev. Wright, is a racist — my [...]

Funny is a very, overused word. Whenever we cannot understand people, we say they are funny. Whenever we do not understand a course of action from anyone, we say it was a funny thing they did. If we find a country not in keeping with the culture we were born into, we say it is [...]

Help me sing these songs of freedom!
It never ceases to amaze me how decent minds cannot understand the level of shocking and abysmal political degeneracy that many PPP leaders have descended to. Is it that they do not want to for some cultural reason?

Facts that would not go away
The PPP leaders, most of the ministers of Government and President Jagdeo hardly miss an opportunity to denounce the private media that criticize the government. Listen or read any major speech and you are bound to hear either an emotional outcry or a political cussing down of the private media. [...]

A man who sells potions in a traveling show
Unless a history-maker confessed in his/her memoirs before they died or confesses while they are still alive, we will never know if they genuinely believed in the things they told us or were just selling us deceptions for their own particular reasons. Cheddi Jagan and Tony [...]

Dear Editor,The effectiveness of the pen is that it pierces the conscience of those who err. There is no pain from physical assault, the pen inflicts pain to the mind of those who in their palaces are protected by their armies and forces; those who wear the suits, jackets and ties and are of [...]

Freddie Kissoon is the ‘best’ political commentator Guyana has right now operating in Guyana, which says more about Guyana and its decrepit state and a lot less about Freddie, a lecturer at the University of Guyana…and then you get this. stick to local matters Freddie
Looking back over the decades at Cuba under Fulgencio Baptista, the [...]