TWO weeks ago, I invited Vincent Alexander to be on the Freddie Kissoon Show. He agreed (and he came) but in the discussion, his frequent appearances on the Globe Span programme came up. While accepting the invitation, he said he has to look at his schedule and that is what prompted my Globe Span remark.

Vincent said he appears on Globe Span because he has an arrangement with them. The host of this programme is the infamous or famous Vishnu Bisram. So, I asked Vincent if he was happy appearing alongside Bisram.
He retorted that he has an arrangement with Globe Span not Bisram.

But the moral labyrinth comes up. The moral maze has been with us since civilisation began. How does society account for the moral double standards of its members? And what constitute moral right and moral wrong? Before we continue with Vincent, let’s skip over to Timothy Jonas.
Mr. Jonas, like Vincent, is a weekly guest of Mr. Bisram on Globe Span. But Mr. Jonas does not want to be interviewed either by me or Leonard Craig, the co-host of the Freddie Kissoon Show. For months now, he has adopted two attitudes to the invitation.
One is that his schedule does not allow for an appearance and the other attitude is not to return calls. This has been going on for months now. But the man who cannot appear on a local talk-show despite invitations months now, finds himself weekly on a talk-show with Mr. Bisram.

Vincent and Jonas seem to be happy to sit with Bisram. Should they? There is where the moral confusion comes in. Bisram is one of the most outrageous humans I have researched in my entire academic life.
Mr. Bisram says he has six Masters in six different, unrelated research areas and six doctorates in six unrelated research areas, making him the world’s most educated man. Mr. Bisram also says he has been conducting surveys/poll the past 40 years.
Yet despite this gargantuan “erudition” there is absolutely no research material on Mr. Bisram’s work history. No one knows with his 12 higher degrees which institution in which parts of the world, Mr. Bisram ever worked. There is no research material on Mr. Bisram, the pollster and his staff and organisation.

Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, in reference to me cites my discourteous responses to him. I will continue to be harsh and use adjectives like, “asinine” and “comical” if you write appalling nonsense that is both infantile and silly about my country and that is what Ramcharan does.
Now Bisram recently penned a letter suggesting Guyana should become the 51st state of the USA.
So, are Vincent and Jonas happy to sit with this man every week?

Surely not Vincent because Vincent founded and leads the Forbes Burnham Institute. What would Burnham say about Guyana becoming part of the USA?  Now, Mr. Bisram has a friend named Mike Persaud.
This expatriate Guyanese who left Guyana over 50 years ago, wrote a letter last week endorsing Bisram’s comical and asinine idea and advocates that the US should have oversight authority over Guyana. Persaud is the Stabroek News’ biggest fan.
He comments on the letters in the online edition of the Stabroek News every day, I repeat, every day.

Now Persaud belongs to an obscure group of Guyanese who left Guyana, like Persaud, over 50 years ago. It is called the Oil and Gas Governance Network (OGGN). This group also has a member who is German and lives in Germany but says he has Guyanese blood. His name is Andre Brandli.
Mr. Brandli writes all the time about Guyana but not a word about his own country, Germany. It was left to a Guyanese living in Germany, Ms. Ashma John, in a column in the Stabroek News to inform us that Germany was picking up immigrants in the uncivilised hours and deporting them.
She used the words “Nazi-like style.”

Here are the words of Mr. Persaud: “There is a group in the Guyanese diaspora that promotes the idea of Guyana seeking a Constitutional arrangement with the United States. That arrangement already exists in an informal way. Guyana needs to make it Constitutional.”
Of course he is referring to his amorphous, comical outfit hidden away somewhere in New York termed OGGN. These expatriates are promoting an idea for over 800,000 Guyanese who live in this country and serve this country.

But that idea of OGGN may have come from the German autocrat – Andre Brandli. His country’s past and present leadership shockingly announced to the world that Israel is Germany’s reason of state.
Germany which committed genocide twice, first in Namibia, then in Europe between 1933 and 1945, is now supporting genocide in Gaza. Mr. Brandli, please leave Guyana out of your equation!
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