THAT well-known columnist of Guyana’s sensationalist print needs no introduction. For among his peculiarities, he becomes hysterical when one does not support or agrees with his views. Apart from that, he posits himself as a fair-minded human, filled with all analytical skills and with oceans of principles. Also, he supports all that is right against all that is wrong. Such is the gospel according to Freddie Kissoon. But so many times he has been found wanting in most of these self-ascribed attributes, that it becomes amusing. But that is usual.
For example, there is no Guyanese who understands what cricket means to him/her and country, even to the CARICOM island states, would not have supported government’s decision to disband the Guyana Cricket Board, then substituting same with an Interim Management Committee, especially one headed by the greatest West Indian Cricket team captain and one of the greatest cricket test captains of all time – Clive Hubert Lloyd.
Why should not have the Government of Guyana disband a cricket board that had an entirely different agenda of very questionable doings and whose administrators were looking after matters other than cricket? Their stewardship of the game was reflected in the poor results of the national side at the regional level.
But while those board members would have sought refuge, hidden behind the old decrepit WICB convention of forbidding governments involvement in managing the affairs of their respective territories cricket, as a reason for objecting to government’s action – Kissoon’s position took the usual anti-government profile because of his well known dislike and hatred for the PPP/C. In other words, he sacrificed what ought to have been a readied patriotic position for one substituted by personal considerations.
Thus it was no surprise when he aimed his vitriol at the local board for their support of Lloyd’s announced bid for the WICB presidency. One would support that if like most CARICOM nationals he is a cricket fan then he would have automatically supported this great son of Guyana whose record speaks for itself, coupled with an equally impressive resume in the post-game administrative echelon of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
That the “Super Cat” answered the call to duty in the cause of a sport dearest to his and country’s heart, firstly, and then extend his interest to the larger play of wanting to restore the dignity to Caribbean cricket is because he has the genuine interest of cricket uppermost and not what perks there may be. This is what Kissoon and his ilk must know.
But this is Kissoon as he has and always been – letting his proper judgement be clouded by personal hatred.