FREDERICK Kissoon in his Kaieteur News column of 5-15-11 titled: “When a King is subject of a joke” strikes a self righteous pose in his comparison of the firing of Trinidadian Cabinet Minister Mary King by the Prime Minister. With his perception of alleged wrongdoings by the President of Guyana, Kissoon seems to be only preoccupied with Indian wrongdoings alone.

The same sanctimonious Kissoon never wrote one word of condemnation from his exalted space as a rabble-rousing columnist against wrong doings by the previous PNM government of Patrick Manning.

Is Kissoon such an educated dunce that he is unaware that the former black Trinidad Prime Minister Patrick Manning unilaterally employed public funds to build a Christian cathedral for his fugitive
Spiritual adviser, even as he leap-frogged a white expatriate Canadian Calder Hart to a major state agency (Endecott) who then proceeded to siphon millions of dollars of public funds into his pocket?

Why the ignorance from Kissoon when Manning even rebuilt the home of
the Catholic Archbishop of Trinidad to the tune of TT$2 million!
Shouldn’t the Muslims and Hindus get the same consideration for public
expenditure on their religions?

In fact, the Trinidad Maha Sabha had to appeal and won a judgement in
the British Privy Council to secure a radio station licence. Yet the Manning government contemptuously failed to issue the requisite licence paper work.

How more scandalous was the contempt for Trinidadians when Manning fired the Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma and replaced him with an Afro-Trinidadian: Didn’t that tickle Kissoon again?

What took the cake was the revelation that the PNM government had spent
millions of dollars of public funds to establish  secret spying operations staffed by all black Trinidadians without parliamentary approval. In addition to records showing that they had tapped the phone conversations of the fired Chief Justice and the Opposition Leader Kamla Bissessar, they also did the same to Trinidad’s President Maxwell Richards.

With all these atrocities by the PNM, we witnessed no widespread outrage by Trinidad’ blacks even as there was silence in Guyana. Not even by the self-admitted Africanised Indian Kissoon who does not even know if he is either fish or fowl.

Kissson’s obvious bias can be so sickening. When an Indian Prime Minister acts to quickly discipline their own Cabinet members or members of their own party it provokes laughter from him.

Why is there one yardstick for one group and a different one for the
other and why this selective silence?

When Kissoon amuses himself in his merry making about corruption under
Trinidad’s People’s Partnership he would be advised to compare it with their opposite PNM government in the same country.