I WILL never ever reply to someone who asks me questions about my politics and my life without them answering my queries about their politics and their life. My life in Guyana has been an open book, and I will answer any question, even about my family, because there is nothing illegal or immoral in the evolution of my life.

But you have to answer my enquiries too. Mr. GHK Lall once wrote that three businessmen built my home where I live in Turkeyen. At the end of his letter in the online edition, the moderator, the editor himself, Mr. Anand Persaud, attached a note saying that I must come clean. I replied in my column, putting some questions for Mr. Persaud to answer.

I would accept the restart of the enquiry about my home from GHK Lall and Stabroek News and so I can probe a few dimensions in the lives of GHK Lall and the owners of Stabroek News, including Mr. Persaud, that should stir the interest of society. I return for the third time on this page to an irritating foreigner who writes about Guyana by the name of Dr. Andre Brandli, who is German and lives in Germany.

Yesterday, Brandli published a letter in which he solicited answers from Presidential Adviser Professor Randy Persaud for 10 questions he advanced. All 10 questions are for a Guyanese living in Guyana, and all are about Guyana. Brandli lives in Germany, and I am suggesting that Professor Persaud write publicly to Brandli agreeing to answer his queries if Brandli would respond to Persaud’s curiosities about German politics.

We have the spectacle playing out in Guyana’s newspapers of Guyana-born folk who have citizenship of other nations but stoutly refuse to comment on the controversial and authoritarian politics of their own countries. There is a co-owner of the Stabroek News, Isabelle DeCaires, who is British. Today, the ruling party of the UK is so unpopular that the polls predict its devastation in the general elections in the coming months.

There is some opaque group named Oil and Gas Governance Network, born in some obscure, unknown village in New York, that refuses to tell Guyanese about the extremism of American politicians, including ruling politicians, who support and condone genocide in Gaza. We in Guyana would like to hear from Guyanese living in the US about support for genocide in the US political establishment.

In the US too, there is Dr. Percy Hintzen, who wrote to chastise Guyana for relying on the fossil fuel industry and suggested in one of his commentaries that Red Thread could play a part in saving Guyana. Hintzen lives in California and maybe he can enlighten Guyanese as to why his governor, Gavin Newsom, rushed over to Israel to praise it for bombing Gaza

There is Dr. Alissa Trotz, who has become an authority on Guyana from her seat in Toronto, where she has lived for over 40 years. She needs to tell us why Canada, which was always seen as one of the most tolerant countries in the world, has now descended into abysmal political degradation by supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza. So we come to Brandli, who never fails to boast about his academic status in Germany.

Professor Persaud should respond to Brandli and demand explanations from Brandli about his government’s extreme warmongering in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and Germany’s recent authoritarian crackdown on supporters of the Palestinian cause.

Germany has banned the formation of organisations that advocate for a boycott of Israeli goods and academic exchanges with Israel. Germany has banned protests against Israel’s genocidal invasion of Gaza. In Germany, you cannot publicly use the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine can be free.” Let me inform Dr. Brandli, that in the democracy of Guyana, you can go in public with a placard that praises Israel, and you can bear a placard that supports Hamas. That is what a democracy is about.

I have long had suspicions of racial genetics in Germany. Germany brutalised the people of Namibia, yet Namibians need a visa from Germany but not Israelis. In Germany, it is a criminal offence to deny the Holocaust, but not slavery, which was 10 times worse than the Holocaust.

The last country on Planet Earth that should deny the occurrence of genocide is Germany. It committed the worst genocide in history after slavery, and now it is denying genocide in Gaza. Why does Germany have this fascination with genocide? This is the question Randy Persaud should ask Brandli. I end with my own question to Brandli. Why you chose to live in a country like that?