HERE  is newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon, again, in Tuesday’s edition of the Kaieteur News, in his column captioned “Propaganda or sincere beliefs though not grounded in reality?”, spewing his usual nonsense.

And what an obsession he has with President Jagdeo! Attacking  a leader who has done so much for the restoration of this country’s once battered image; and the great transformation that is propelling Guyana onto the highway of modernisation.

In a paragraph of his latest diatribe, Kissoon  has taken issue with the President’s  reference to the progress now evident in  Guyana. He assumes that “Mr. Jagdeo probably has in mind the countless constructions going on at a supersonic pace all over Guyana.”

Then he went on to make a most damningly unfair statement: “In Guyana, nuff  constructions are being done by the proceeds of money laundering.”

I need not emphasise the marked generalization of such a statement. And he, as an initially trained  Historian, must know that not only is generalization  unfair, but unsafe, dangerous and filled with serious implications.

The distinguished Guyanese historian, Professor Emeritus Dr. Menezes, I am quite certain, would have reminded his class of this pitfall ever so often. But that is Kissoon’s style, interpreting without evidence and taking offence with anyone who dares to disagree. No wonder the many legal actions he now faces.

I interpret  this  creolese  “nuff,’ used in the context of the article   to mean that a significant  number of Guyanese are washing their dirty money, via the building boom.

Yes, there are those who are  involved in this illegality; but, what about those thousands of  Guyanese who, through honest toil and against the odds, have built beautiful homes, compliments of the revolutionary housing programme under the present PPP/C administration that gives ALL Guyanese  an equal opportunity  to acquire a house lot along with titled ownership and easy access to mortgage loans and repayment costs. This once in a lifetime deal is open to all Guyanese regardless of class, colour or creed.

Is such a generalization fair to all these folks, who up to ten years ago, many of them, were crammed along with their families in squatter settlements, in very insalubrious environments? Certainly not,  Freddie.

This statement must be seen as an attack on the  many hardworking class of Guyanese who have been sweating for a clean dollar; and they, with full voice, must condemn such a foul and  outrageous statement.