From WikiLeaks to the National Stadium: Tales of social baldness
September 14, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
I have not publicly identified this gentleman so far but I will forward his name to all the private media houses and they can ask him for a comment. I will do so now (Tuesday). He needs to tell Guyanese what he told some of his business colleagues. This Portuguese-Guyanese, decent, hard-working entrepreneur has left a thriving venture in other hands up the East Coast since he migrated to Florida.
He told a few persons that while going to see the Leviathan, he went too early and saw Roger Khan leaving the official residence. I dare this gentleman to say he didn’t tell a selected few of what he saw.
We have two days to go before the invitees of the Day of Appreciation for Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo gather at the National Stadium. Showtime begins in the hot afternoon sun at 3:00 pm. This timing reminds me of the title of one of the best novels in the English language of all time, “Darkness at Noon” written by one of my favourite philosophers, Arthur Koestler.
Indeed on Friday afternoon, it will be darkness at noon. The former Education Minister, Dale Bisnauth, in the PPP Government after 1992 who became smitten by an anti-Koestler hater, Mrs. Janet Jagan, once wrote a column in the Mirror, the PPP newspaper, titled “Really Arthur?” about Koestler (September 22, 1996). Maybe the title of my piece here should be “Really Bharrat?”
Fantastic disclosures from WikiLeaks are piling up just days before the darkness canopies the National Stadium on Friday. The latest one says that Ambassador Bullen wrote back to Washington to confirm that Roger Khan did indeed have ongoing relationships with very high officials in Government, going right into the heart of power.
What is important to note is that Bullen was responding to a specific question about Khan’s intimacy with these politicians. Why did Washington want to know this? Now that the US Government has this information, what does it intend to do with it?
I did write in my Sunday column that I believe indictments are going to follow after the elections this year.
The WikiLeaks cables seem to be overshadowing the Day of Appreciation. We need to focus on this comic strip even though the cables are taking up our time. What is there to celebrate and appreciate on Friday at the National Stadium? Koestler’s novel becomes uncannily relevant as preparations for the circus continues.
All over Guyana we see the reflections of the sun highlighting the social baldness of this nation. We see the social baldness when night comes because we have to lock ourselves in our homes; crime has overrun this country.
When they had the candlelight vigil for the young UG student who was gunned down by the seawall, I couldn’t bring myself to go, even though I was teaching nearby. I teach these fine youthful Guyanese at UG and they are as nice, good and soulful as any of the young generation we find in the rest of the world.
That young man did not deserve to die so stupidly in a country where the rulers refuse to accept a police reform project from the UK Government that perhaps would make crime fighting more successful.
The social baldness is ubiquitous. These Faustian creatures that will serenade their listeners at the Stadium on Friday with fictions of achievements cannot get Guyana to function, yet they had almost two decades to do it. But we need to look at the twelve years of Mr. Jagdeo’s watch.
What can this man tell the citizens that they will freely transport to the Stadium to listen to him. Take the Hits and Jams away and no one will turn up.
Where is Guyana in comparison with the rest of our neighbours? The outgoing British High Commissioners pointed to our supersonic exodus. Citizens are scared of the type of medical services offered in this land. All over UG, there is talk that lecturer Mel Sankies died over a minor surgery. Mr. Jagdeo has been in power for twelve years. Look at the complete picture of our school.
My daughter did brilliantly at “Common Entrance” but my wife concluded that if we have to starve she wasn’t sending her kid to any public school where teachers are as plentiful as elephants in Georgetown. How comical! How funny that one of the biggest, yes biggest, supporters of Mr. Jagdeo who will speak when darkness takes over the afternoon skies at the Stadium on Friday, applied for Canadian residency last year and accepted it.
September 14, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
I have not publicly identified this gentleman so far but I will forward his name to all the private media houses and they can ask him for a comment. I will do so now (Tuesday). He needs to tell Guyanese what he told some of his business colleagues. This Portuguese-Guyanese, decent, hard-working entrepreneur has left a thriving venture in other hands up the East Coast since he migrated to Florida.
He told a few persons that while going to see the Leviathan, he went too early and saw Roger Khan leaving the official residence. I dare this gentleman to say he didn’t tell a selected few of what he saw.
We have two days to go before the invitees of the Day of Appreciation for Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo gather at the National Stadium. Showtime begins in the hot afternoon sun at 3:00 pm. This timing reminds me of the title of one of the best novels in the English language of all time, “Darkness at Noon” written by one of my favourite philosophers, Arthur Koestler.
Indeed on Friday afternoon, it will be darkness at noon. The former Education Minister, Dale Bisnauth, in the PPP Government after 1992 who became smitten by an anti-Koestler hater, Mrs. Janet Jagan, once wrote a column in the Mirror, the PPP newspaper, titled “Really Arthur?” about Koestler (September 22, 1996). Maybe the title of my piece here should be “Really Bharrat?”
Fantastic disclosures from WikiLeaks are piling up just days before the darkness canopies the National Stadium on Friday. The latest one says that Ambassador Bullen wrote back to Washington to confirm that Roger Khan did indeed have ongoing relationships with very high officials in Government, going right into the heart of power.
What is important to note is that Bullen was responding to a specific question about Khan’s intimacy with these politicians. Why did Washington want to know this? Now that the US Government has this information, what does it intend to do with it?
I did write in my Sunday column that I believe indictments are going to follow after the elections this year.
The WikiLeaks cables seem to be overshadowing the Day of Appreciation. We need to focus on this comic strip even though the cables are taking up our time. What is there to celebrate and appreciate on Friday at the National Stadium? Koestler’s novel becomes uncannily relevant as preparations for the circus continues.
All over Guyana we see the reflections of the sun highlighting the social baldness of this nation. We see the social baldness when night comes because we have to lock ourselves in our homes; crime has overrun this country.
When they had the candlelight vigil for the young UG student who was gunned down by the seawall, I couldn’t bring myself to go, even though I was teaching nearby. I teach these fine youthful Guyanese at UG and they are as nice, good and soulful as any of the young generation we find in the rest of the world.
That young man did not deserve to die so stupidly in a country where the rulers refuse to accept a police reform project from the UK Government that perhaps would make crime fighting more successful.
The social baldness is ubiquitous. These Faustian creatures that will serenade their listeners at the Stadium on Friday with fictions of achievements cannot get Guyana to function, yet they had almost two decades to do it. But we need to look at the twelve years of Mr. Jagdeo’s watch.
What can this man tell the citizens that they will freely transport to the Stadium to listen to him. Take the Hits and Jams away and no one will turn up.
Where is Guyana in comparison with the rest of our neighbours? The outgoing British High Commissioners pointed to our supersonic exodus. Citizens are scared of the type of medical services offered in this land. All over UG, there is talk that lecturer Mel Sankies died over a minor surgery. Mr. Jagdeo has been in power for twelve years. Look at the complete picture of our school.
My daughter did brilliantly at “Common Entrance” but my wife concluded that if we have to starve she wasn’t sending her kid to any public school where teachers are as plentiful as elephants in Georgetown. How comical! How funny that one of the biggest, yes biggest, supporters of Mr. Jagdeo who will speak when darkness takes over the afternoon skies at the Stadium on Friday, applied for Canadian residency last year and accepted it.