IT is highly immoral for Freddie Kissoon to attempt to address anyone’s intellectual or academic competence or incompetence. In addition to his admission to stealing books and kissing a boy as a teenager; it is time Freddie admits he has no authority to judge intellectual competency. In his March 1 column in Kaieteur news, Freddie presumptuously ventured into commenting on this subject forgetting that his dismal and unimpressive record as a lecturer at the University of Guyana does not permit him to speak on academic achievements.
It is because of Guyana’s unregulated university environment that Freddie remains as a lecturer, albeit one who has remained stagnant for the last 30 years.
His academic career is filled with underachievement, except for a newspaper column in which he occupies valuable space with illogical and nonsensical reasoning. None of his work so far can claim academic prowess. Unlike many in academia, Freddie has never produced a single publication as a lecturer after all these years.
In the said article, he committed a serious mistake by trying to disparage rural people as having no aptitude or strong connection to education. He has obviously crossed the line.
It is safe to conclude that Freddie just utters hogwash and will jump on any bandwagon to be in the limelight.