EVEN though we are aware of Kaieteur’s columnist, Freddie Kissoon’s technique in presenting ‘red herrings, misinformation, inaccuracies and jaundiced views’ merely to evoke ego pleasing responses, from time to time, we spare some time to clear up one issue he misrepresented on Monday July 13, 2009.

In his column titled “ON BEING RIGHT”, utilising his vague speculative, open ended style, he insinuates that his friend, nationally known writer, Barrington Braithwaite, might not have been paid for his CARIFESTA X involvement.

“I don’t know if Barry ever got paid…I don’t know how many of the protesting performances got paid but I doubt most of them did…wasn’t I proven deadly accurate,” he wrote.

Could he just not have checked with them all? Or isn’t it his usual technique to spread untruths and doubts, hereby soliciting responses to feed more columns and a warped, paranoiac ego?

Barrington Braithwaite was paid half a million dollars ($500,000) for his involvement in the production of the play “The Silk Cotton Tree.”

All the other performers were paid the agreed upon sums. In fact, those persons breached the contract and understanding to stage two performances- one at the National Cultural Centre and another in Linden, the latter was never staged.

Those dramatists actually owe the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

What does Kissoon think of their non-fulfillment of their obligations?
PETER JEFFREY
CARIFESTA Volunteer