I wrote this before and I am repeating it. I had just parked my bicycle (I am waiting for the cash grant to buy a replacement) after riding in the national park, when my phone rang. The caller expressed admiration for the Freddie Kissoon Show then told me he disapproved of the style and mannerism of “Guyanese Critic.” He believes the “Guyanese Critic” is not all there.

I told him I couldn’t understand why he picked on “Guyanese Critic” when there are so many others whose mental/psychological composure is far more open for debate than that of Guyanese Critic. Immediately, Vishnu Bisram came to mind. You read Bisram over the past 20 years and you wonder about his mind .

Read Bisram and you will see the following notes that appear in almost all his letters. Here are these notes – Bisram has been taught by almost all the great American professor in sociology, economics, statistics, international relations, political science, etc…. Bisram has done classes in almost all the known universities in New York. Bisram has had discussions with many of the top prominent academics in the US. Bisram has done polling all over the word. Bisram has six Masters Degrees in six different subjects. Bisram has six doctorates in six different subjects.
Bisram is the latest addition to the school of anti-PPP critics. His anti-PPP fulminations are contained on the letter pages of Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News. One suspects this attitude came about because his request to become Guyana’s High Commissioner was turned down, and rightly so.

The PM and Foreign Minister of India just reading one of the letters Bisram wrote in the Guyanese newspapers about his status of being the most educated person in the world would bring ridicule to our High Commission.
Bisram is at it again and the academic and political dishonesty shines brightly. Barefacedly avoiding to provide information on the organisation and administrative nature of his polling outfit in Guyana, Bisram wrote this in the Kaieteur News (Wednesday) – “Critics had asked for names and contact for people interviewed for polls. Surveys are highly confidential.”

No human on Planet Earth would ask a polling organisation for the names of people interviewed because those names are not known to the polling personnel themselves for one commonsensical reason – in polling, you do not ask the respondents for their names, you simply take a representative sample of the country’s demography.

Bisram is insulting his critics apart from lying on them. The latest person to question the existence of Bisram’s polls is Guyana’s former High Commissioner to Canada, Harry Nawbatt. What Nawbatt and other curious persons want to know are the following
1-Where is the local office of his polling organisation located in Guyana?

2-If there is no permanent office, which organisations facilitate the operations in Guyana like co-ordinating the activities. There must be a staff consisting of competent qualified people. Mr. Bisram has not named not one single person that works with him, whether that person is from Guyana or any other country.

3-Mr. Bisram says his polling outfit is named North America Association of Teachers (NACTA). In a world where you can find everything about any organisation in any part of the world, there is absolutely nothing on the internet about an entity named NACTA.
Those are just three questions on the polling status of Mr. Bisram and his fictional organisation. Here is a warning to the leaders of the PPP. Mr. Bisam is going to claim that a poll he did shows that the PPP will become a minority government. I am convinced of this and even though I have sounded the alarm, it will not deter Mr. Bisram.

He has become virulently anti-PPP, and he will say that he has done polls just before the election to show that the PPP will lose the plurality. I remind readers that Mr. Bisram, in an online publication he owns, titled Indian Caribbean Diaspora News (ICDN), announced that he did a straw poll that showed Glen Lall and Azarrudin Mohamed are ahead of President Ali. I don’t believe any straw poll was done. This is Mr. Bisram way of getting at the PPP. And the PPP should expect more of this wildness from him.

For over 12 years now, Mr. Bisram writes about his poll results using the letter pages. The media, the newspapers and online news entities do not carry Mr. Bisram poll results as news item. The reason is obvious. I close with a bit of information of Bisram that shows why no one will ever take him seriously. On February 17, 2024, he wrote in the ICDN that Guyana should become the 51st state of the US.

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