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monday, october 21, 2013
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Alarm at Kaieteur News editorial
Dear Editor, I read, with much alarm, the editorial in the Sunday edition of the Kaieteur News dated, October 20 headlined “Kill them all?” I would like to think that it would be standard that a person writing an editorial would have researched the topic on which he chose to write and report accurately, with full unbiased, disclosure. Firstly, I am not a commissioner at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). I resigned. Secondly, I never held a position of the quasi head of the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic. After volunteer-
ing for one and a half years there, I was employed, on a part-time contract as a children’s legal aid lawyer. I served there for about four years until last year. I still provide pro bono services for many persons who are underprivileged and have no access to the justice system, although I do not do it from the legal aid clinic. Thirdly, and most importantly, this editorial deliberately chose to leave out the parts of the conversation where I expressly stated that I was against extrajudicial killings and that I do not condone all actions
of the police, that this was nothing but my view and that, in this instance, I believed the police’s version on the account of what transpired that night. That editorial may call me “cold”, “insensitive”, “draconian”, or whatever it chooses to call me, as in relation to my opinion on persons who use force against the police and innocent citizens. However, the editorial of a newspaper, in my view, ought to be balanced, well researched and of full disclosure, presenting all the facts known to it or that ought to be known to it, thereby leav-
ing its readers to form a view. I urge the owner and publisher of the Kaieteur News to ponder whether the writer of the editorial can hereafter be trusted to present the truth of what transpired on any matter that he reports. I wish to note with some alarm that there are many views very similar to mine on Facebook and in the public domain. I am concerned that this editorial addressed my views in isolation from other similar views. With regards, Jaya Manickchand
His obsession continues
Dear Editor, This man has nothing to do. I think that he is blinded, biased, or just a blockhead. He writes for Kaieteur News, and his last few columns really tell a tale: “A week in the life of President Ramotar”; “No one in Lusignan and Guyana can be that silly”; “For Christ’s sake, President Ramotar, be statesmanlike!”; “President Jagdeo said it, now President Ramotar repeats it” and “President Ramotar sang an old, old, old song”. I contend that this col-
umnist (so to speak) is obsessed with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s (PPP/C) leaders. He has been going at former President Bharrat Jagdeo for quite a spell. Ironically, every time he vents his spleen, during and after Jagdeo’s tenure as president, the very man, the object of his odium, received major accolades and promotion. I think this has medically affected this writer. He needs a lot of help and is tethering on the brink of something quite lunatic and
destructive. He is now after the current president. On the flip side, he has a catamite-like devotion for the Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Nigel Hughes, and as such, he could not utter a word of condemnation as regards his collusive role in the Lusignan Massacre trial. He just could not risk being spurned. One of the evidences of madness is just this. It should be noted too that insanity is not quite a medical diagnosis alone, but in many
jurisprudence, it is a legal term, yet encompassing a wide range of mental disorders, such as organic brain syndromes, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Based on his personal belief, gathered from his many constant pronouncements, this quasi analyst is psychologically afflicted, with at least some form of bipolar disorder. I would not be surprised if he soon calls himself God. Yours truly, Corrine Wilkins
“Junkies” are being paid to commit crimes Dear Editor, I am following very closely a situation in Delhi, India where drug addicts in the city are allegedly being used by big-time gangsters to commit serious crimes and only paid enough to buy their daily quota of dope. In the middle of last month, the police there gathered up drug addicts, caught in criminal acts, and sent them to rehabilitation centres. The drive followed the recent arrest of the top 10 criminals in the city. One
of them disclosed that, for most of his crimes, he engaged drug addicts and alcoholics who are desperate for money. This is so for many of our crimes here, but we are too slow to click in. We have to bring a frightening severity for gun related crimes and it must start right at the point of illegally possessing any kind of firearm. Yours faithfully, Valmicky Bridgemohan