THIS column is the third one that I advise readers to remember when the report into the Mahdia inferno becomes public.
The commission is about to release its findings. It may even be this week. I repeat, those who shut their mouths, put down their pens, close their eyes to the report into the election tragedy between March and July in 2020 will jump out of their hypocritical cocoon and criticise every aspect of the report.

I am not the greatest analyst Guyana has produced. I will never be in that category, but in my strive for competence, I believe I have acquired a working knowledge of Guyanese politics, Guyanese sociology and Guyanese history.
You will see that working knowledge at work once the Mahdia findings are made public. What will be the reaction? Here are my predictions and when that report is out and the attackers come out with blazing guns remember my little working knowledge of contemporary Guyana.

The Stabroek News (SN) is going to bring the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) to life as that newspaper is accustomed to doing the past umpteen years. Journalist, Leonard Gildarie told me that since he hosted the Freddie Kissoon-Gildarie Show, 19 months ago, he has to take time from his busy schedule to answer human rights calls all the time. He says people call him about NIS incompetence often.

I simply said to Gildarie: “Welcome to the club.” Since I became an actor in the public domain many moons ago, I have never been out of communication from people in both Guyana and out of Guyana about problems they have. I am always in receipt of complaints from diaspora Guyanese about NIS.

What does the GHRA do in this country? How many persons have sought assistance from the GHRA which has a huge building off Brickdam? Who are the executives of the GHRA? Where are the yearly reports so the analysts can read them to see the problems the poor and the powerless are beset with? But the GHRA has a friend, the SN that resurrects it each time the GHRA wants to say something about the government.

So when the Mahdia report is out, the GHRA will make an appearance on the front page of SN. The commission’s work will be assailed over so-called wrong perspectives it took, the directions it avoided among other condemnations. If you are unable to secure a copy of SN for that day, call me and I will photocopy SN’s coverage of the GHRA’s rage and will bring it to you once I can reach you geographically. My number is 614-5927, and email is fredkissoon@yahoo.com

Did you see any coverage of the refusal to hold elections after the no-confidence motion from Alissa Trotz’s column, “In The Diaspora”? Did Ms. Trotz feature the five months of conspiratorial undermining of the legitimate results of the 2020 general and regional elections? Not one column was done. Not one column was assigned to analysing the Election Report.

But listen to this! Hear this! Read this! “In the Diaspora” will chastise the report the very day the findings are made public. The venom will take up an entire page. Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) will want to tell us about a supposed lack of transparency in the commission’s work, but the actual lack of transparency which characterised the 2020 general elections will not see the light of day.

You bet your last dollar that as soon as the report hits public space, there will be a missive in SN by the usual suspects (TUS). They have ditched the Kaieteur News; they don’t send their stuff to Mr. Lall anymore; I wonder why; would like to know. The signatures will be around 40. Every page of the report will be faulted. But every page of the Election Report was ignored by TUS.

Finally, there are the Moral House Mensheviks (MHM), a term coined by John Mair- aka- Bill Cotton. Moray House is headed by co-owner of SN, Isabelle DeCaires. Moray House holds a monthly symposium but the topics that are selected have a political motive. There were no symposia on the no-confidence vote or the Election Report.

In the holding of these symposia there was one hilarious moment when the podium was given to Ms. Melinda Janki who told her audience that the oil industry will make Guyana poorer not richer (see my column of Friday, August 18, 2023, “This lady said oil will make Guyana poorer).
The Moray House Mensheviks will tear into the commission’s findings. The intentions of all the groups named here simply to get at the government. By the way, TUS and MHM are the same. Guyana can be interesting yet hilarious.