Dear Editor,
My very good friend Freddie Kissoon has not been nice to Donald Ramotar, Clement Rohee, Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, other PPP/C stalwarts, and the PPP/C itself. In my current trip to the former East Bloc, I got to understand why Freddie hates the PPP/C and those associated with the party.
Freddie likes freeness, but he was denied free trips and free education in the former East Bloc and in Cuba. He blames Cheddi, Janet and the PPP/C for preventing him from going to study for free in the East Bloc and in Cuba.
Had Freddie gotten to study for free in the East Bloc, he would have loved the PPP/C today, and none of the negative things he has written about Cuba, the PPP/C and the East Bloc would have made the light of day.
But the East Bloc, Cuba and the PPP/C accepted only qualified deserving candidates for scholarships. They accepted candidates for scholarships based on honesty, integrity and decency and factual writings.
Freddie did not make the cut. It is understandable, therefore, why Freddie has had nothing positive to say the socialist countries in spite of the fact that they have provided several Guyanese with higher education.
Freddie was also denied a scholarship to study in India, explaining the reason why he has had nothing nice to say about India. He is of the view that India should not pursue industrialization strategies or send satellites to space. Had India given him a freebie, Freddie would have been the leading advocate of India and would have had nothing negative to say about Gandhi-ji.
Freddie penned some time ago that anytime Rohee or Ramotar wrote (write) something, he (Freddie) would respond to them deconstructing their positions. Freddie did make numerous responses and he was very nasty to these two towering PPP/C leaders, writing all kinds of lies about them.
Freddie had known Donald and Clement for a very long time since they were all high school peers. Freddie desperately wanted a scholarship to study for free – he was willing to accept any scholarship in the East Bloc. I was told he tried a thing with Cheddie to go to Czechoslovakia.
But Cheddi would not approve it. Instead, Cheddi sent Rohee and Donald to Prague to study and to help edit the World Marxist Review. Cheddie felt these two gentlemen were more qualified.
In looking at their writings, Donald and Rohee are far more qualified than Freddie; they don’t manufacture information like Freddie. The result is Freddie has hated Donald and Rohee for getting the scholarship.
But those chaps were (are) honest and hard working field workers who ground with people. Freddie would not help anyone unless he gets a freebie.
I was told Freddie claimed he was a communist in order to get the scholarship to Prague. But Cheddi and others knew Freddie was an opportunist, and he had done nothing to help build communities the way Donald and Rohee did.
All Freddie had to do was to be honest and inform the Czech Communist Party that he was not a communist and they might have given him a break.
Freddie landed into a similar problem when he was in Grenada. He told the invading Americans he was a capitalist who loves America. But the Americans knew he had come to Grenada to build communism.
Freddie himself confessed that a family member, who had a relationship with Maurice Bishop, sent him to help Cde Maurice (who I met in New York in 1980) to build communism. The Americans unearthed Freddie in Grenada from his hiding and sent him home after the 1983 invasion.
Freddie joined the WPA; he had previously associated with PNC, UF and PPP seeking freeness.
On the East Bloc, I was told that Freddie was also rejected for a scholarship at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. And I was also told he did not make the cut for scholarships in East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria or Hungary – where several Guyanese were granted scholarships and made something of themselves when they returned to Guyana.
Poor Freddie! No country wanted him. Had Freddie been granted a scholarship in Prague, he would have gotten to know Vaclav Havel, the late leader of the Velvet Revolution, who would have taught him how to write proper fiction.
From Prague, he would have gotten to visit Moscow where my friend Rudy Jagopat would have hosted him; Rudy was the Moscow host of Guyanese students visiting from around the East Bloc.
Freddie should proudly tell people he is an opportunist and that he believes in nothing except what will benefit “Freddie”. They would give him a break so he can get freeness in other places besides Guyana.

Vishnu Bisram