Dear Editor

IT requires patience Freddie, but I am overwhelmingly disappointed of this ‘mercenary’ other self-emergence. I understand that to the many that desire the serfhood status of that particular constituency of the APNU+AFC to remain outside of any aspect of an economic re-emergence, due from that tremendous historical contribution paid by a lineage past.

To that effect, the fulfilment of that historical disenfranchisement now rests with the crusade of legitimising and hero-propping of Charrandass Persaud’s act in parliament. In your article on Wednesday, February 06, 2019 Kaieteur News, you mentioned my reference to Charrandass Persaud’s tainted no- confidence motion as an act of bribery. Yes, I did and you are not a foolish person; whether the obvious political polarisation or reasons driven by business dictate that the media keep this issue alive is irrelevant.

My conclusion is based on the following: 1) Charrandass is a habitual gambler and loser (Chronicle January 4, 2019); he is a gambling addict. I have had some exposure to addictive persons, it is not a casual condition. 2) Charrandass had problems that had placed him in conflict with the law. According to Ryan Crawford, he (Charrandass) was supposed to have been charged that said day, Sunday, Jan 13, 2019 Kaieteur News 3) He admits to being in arrangement to handle US1M in gold to secret buyers. Now that raises eyebrows, we all know that gold is collateral for all types of nether-world transactions. Then the rules of parliament that were broken, due to his deceptions according to his own party, but most of all the obvious above nothing , below nothing, expected of anything who were in place to escort their pawn.

4- The police force of this country did tell the nation that they were investigating Charrandass Persaud for bribery and gold smuggling (Chronicle Jan. 19, 2019). How can any thinking citizen paying attention seek to justify the Charrandass fiasco as a legal act? The circumstantial evidence points to a man in a psychological and economic quagmire, vulnerable and available for a way out, the entourage defines the nature of that event.
I don’t have ready access to having my views published as some do, but like many in the public arena, we know the facades, the posture and knowledge pretence that our most decadent social citizens hide behind. I am not a political writer, that category of scribes have always had the repugnance of ‘mercenary’ attached to their names. I am aware enough to know that the APNU+AFC represents the majority of Guyanese whom they owe the responsibility to address the ugly reality of this situation. The reality that is veiled from media debates, but not from the suspicions of perceived ordinary folk, the harbingers of lawlessness, greed, murder and bigotry who now call to heed the constitution that they trampled on mere years ago.

It is impossible Freddie, to make the mundane majestic. Charrandass is not the material of heroes, as his entourage was not the references of solid citizens. Next, you mentioned my connection to the Ethnic Relations Commission; you know I was elected to that commission by the Afro-Guyanese constituency groups, and I must remind you that many of the creatures identified and publicly representing the Charrandass fiasco are all known to have always stood on the opposing side of the interests of that constituency, by their actions or economic inactions, political pursuits and cultural interferences. You also know that I have had a career spanning [1982-2019]37 years in the media, as writer and illustrator, both fiction and non-fiction, columnist and letter writer and cartoonist. One of the more serious aspects of the ERC is also to promote discourse on the known but shied-away-from ‘hidden agendas,’ so unless you can point to my promoting racism, hatred and public hysteria separate the ERC from my career as media activist and commentator. I know where my responsibilities rest. I am also a cultural activist; you grew up in a creolised ward of Georgetown, so you know the term ‘Fat-Fowl.’ This term applies to bribing women for affection; also, you of some female relative offering up themselves to obtain a job or some material gain, ‘Fat Fowl’ is a term of contempt of reproach and insult, never a compliment, it also applies to the Charrandass incident, the origins of that air of contempt I will explain in a following letter.

Regards
Barry Braithwaite