I read Frederick Kissoon’s column under the caption “Psychology, reality and Norwegian money” (Kaieteur News Wednesday 18 May, 2011).
Mr.editor, permit me to use the medium of the Guyana Chronicle to inform the Norwegians that Frederick Kissoon is a known political opponent of the Government of Guyana and his rationalisatin on Guyana’s LCDS lacks objectivity and can be described as merely political. But the Norwegians are aware that lunatics like Kissoon exist in society who should be listened to but ignored.
In the pursuit of his partisan political interests Kissoon uses the Kaieteur News to his full advantage to make unsubstantiated claims against the Government of Guyana, yet he accuses the government of being fascist, Kissoon doesn’t know the meaning of fascism.
Kissoon said that the Norwegians listened to the PNCR and AFC when they last visited Guyana and they also read people like Dr Bulkan. But the fact of the matter is that the Norwegians listen to anybody when they visit Guyana but place their comments under the microscope to determine their merits or demerits. This is what they did to Dr Bulkan and her controversial civil society group who called on the Norwegian government not to fund the LCDS. But the Norwegians are not narrow-minded people like Kissoon, Dr Bulkan, Ramjattan and Granger who diagnosed their comments as just being political and lacking in constructive rationalisation and analysis. So the Norwegian government added US$40 million into the Guyana REDD+Investment Fund (GRIF) to further the implementation of Guyana’s LCDS – leaving the prophets of doom like Kisson, Dr Bulkan and Ramjattan with their dirty mouths open.
What nonsense is Kissoon claiming that government misuses LCDS funds or intends to do so? Is Kissoon aware that the Government of Guyana is not the manager of the GRIP funds, but the World Bank? Kissoon is absolutely ignorant about Guyana’s LCDS and instead of writing rubbish he should use his time productively by reading booklets on the LCDS.
Kissoon attacks President Jagdeo. He doesn’t have the values like our President. President Jagdeo is a statesman and Champion of the Earth who is recognised internationally for his commitment to the fight against global climate change, while Kissoon is a loose cannon and an ungrateful son of the soil and moreso an outcast. I know him well. He lectures at our university but lacks mannerism. How did he get this job?
But understanding Kissoon is important so as to determine his heretic behaviour. He has a psychological problem. He is mad with himself and the world because of the colour of his skin.