POLITICAL activist and Kaieteur News columnist, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, who is no stranger to controversy, has apparently ruffled the feathers of another well-known Kaieteur News columnist, Mr. Ralph Seeram.

Kissoon criticized Seeram’s friend, Mr. Oscar Ramjeet, in one of his daily publications – criticisms that Seeram found to be unfounded.
“You can’t communicate with a jackass, which incidentally is what I called his attacker some three years ago,” Seeram said, taking Kissoon to task in his last column.
The column, under the headline ‘From the Diaspora… cheating spouses, lovers etc., and character assassination’, stated that Ramjeet’s character was “attacked by a self-styled intellectual, political activist” who pens more fiction than facts.
Seeram said, “Last Friday, the jackass who thinks he has a monopoly on opinions attacked Ramjeet again. The problem with this looney, (he actually said in an article that he is crazy) is if you express an opinion that does not fit his tunnel vision view of the world, he feels that he has the right to attack your character.
“His world is black or white, you either support the PPP [People’s Progressive Party] or you are against the PPP, and his whole world revolves around the PPP. He thinks everyone should share his obsession.”
The columnist went on to outline what he believed to be the achievements of Kissoon, citing that: “He spent over 20 years as a mediocre lecturer at University of Guyana living off the Guyanese taxpayers, repeating the same thing. His writing skills are limited to criticizing the PPP government, and if your views are not in conformity with his warped thinking then you are a PPP supporter.”
“Any fool can tell you that having a university education does not necessarily make you an educated person and he has proven this to be true,” Seeram said.
The publication of the in-house conflict has now left many wondering over the reasons scathing onslaughts between two columnists were allowed by Editor-in- Chief Mr. Adam Harris.
One insider expressed the view that Harris deliberately allowed Seeram’s column to pass muster since he has had many problems with Kissoon in the past several years. Kissoon, however, enjoys the support of the owner of Kaieteur News, Mr. Glenn Lall – a fact that angers Harris, according to an insider.