PLEASE permit me to make a few comments on a letter written by Lionel Peters which was published on November 15, 2010 under the heading “Putting Kissoon’s assertions in proper perspective.” Lionel is insisting on what a patriot and nationalist he was/is when all the time he was a known bearer of news which pleases his bosses at Freedom House and for which he hoped to be handsomely rewarded. Others, like Lionel felt a sense of loss of hope when the Civic Component was formed for the 1992 General Elections. Even though Lionel Peters personally did not find favour with the return of Mr. Brinley Benn and others, his hope to be appointed Director of Sports made him a very bitter person. Peter’s bitterness took a vocal form when he realised that he will not be named a Region Four Councillor.
Having stated the above I want to comment on three areas of Peters’s letter just to expose the dishonesty and selfish attitude of this individual. He wrote the following “Since the 1997 General Elections, when I made a robust, energetic and strident effort to head a PNC campaign across Guyana, especially in former PPP strongholds of Regions Two, Essequibo Coast and Islands, Region Five, West Berbice and Region Six, East Berbice, in an attempt to try and undo my earlier role in the efforts to remove, inadvisedly, Mr. Desmond Hoyte as President of Guyana.”
Let me say now that Mr. Peters’ relation with the PNC began with the failure of GOLD. This was a political party that had a still birth. GOLD never attracted anyone to be the Presidential Candidate. All the persons that were consulted ended up with the PPP. Lionel tried to recruit what he called disheartened PPP supporters for membership in GOLD.  After meetings these very persons reported to Freedom House. GOLD was launched at the Pegasus and soon disappeared. The word then was that the movers behind Gold did not want political positions. They wanted business and contracts. Therefore nobody wanted to touch these guys especially Peters and an executive from the aviation industry.
The GOLD document that Lionel talks about was indeed put together by him. However the whole of the document was plagiarised from campaign speeches of President Jimmy Carter.
Peters further states: “I took the decision to desist from open criticism of the ruling party, as they had won a narrow victory. This decision was forced on me because I was not named to Parliament (although I was able to increase the PNC’s votes in the areas where I had concentrated my campaign efforts), largely due to the back stabbing of the Indian cabal within the echelons of the PNC”. This statement is a total misrepresentation and certainly exposes Peters for who he really is. It is true to say that Peters worked to increase the votes of the PNC in PPP strongholds, but he was doing it for another reason. Mr. Peters and other PNC foot soldiers of East Indian background were on the pay roll of a wealthy Indian businessman who wanted to sit in Parliament since he sold his accounting school in England and returned to Guyana. Since Peters was working for a salary, Mr. Hoyte could have never named him to Parliament. Instead Mr. Hoyte named the businessman to Parliament.
Let it be known that if GOLD was indeed a third force in the 1997 elections, both the PPP and PNC would have gotten a good cussing from Peters. GOLD and Peters failed so he turned to a member of the Reform wing of the PNC for rescue. That is how he began to work for the businessman.
Peters will always be the same, the manifestation of ego and hate.