I SAW an interview that GHK Lall gave to Travis Chase. Let me remind you of a line I wrote in a column on Lall for Wednesday, October 15, 2025: It went like this: “Please believe me when I say that when I read that GHK Lall is suing Mikhail Rodrigues, the person that goes under the name “Guyanese Critics” I was in uncontrollable rage.”
I was overcome with anger about Lall once more when I saw his interview with Travis Chase. My first bout of uncontrollable rage about Lall occurred about 10 years ago. It happened when I read the words he used to describe people who reply to him. He exclaimed in shock at the gutter nature of Guyanese society that he sees. And why was it gutter-like? Because people were replying to Lall, a man with high moral principles who pity those who could resort to what Lall deems inferior language.
There and then I knew Lall felt he was a different man, who was superior. There is only one word to describe it, “narcissist.” From those ten years ago, until this day, the characteristics of hauteur, pomposity and hubris, superiority could be found in Lall’s writing including the interview with Travis Chase last week and in every column he wrote since the Chase interview.
I would shut out any defence you may have of Lall by quoting him. You see for yourself that Lall does not meet his critics head-on. Lall is annoyed that people should criticise him. This narcissist streak is in full display in the Chase interview. Let’s examine the Chase chat with him. But before we do so, was the Chase forum the best place? Why Chase? Because he knows Chase will not bring out the mountains of sanctimonious hypocrisy that Lall is guilty of.
He starts the interview with his superiority on full display. He said he is hurt about what people are saying about him. Here are his words: “It is painful for the honest work you put out as a servant of the people to be thrown into your face, to be distorted in this scurrilous manner.” This is the exact Lall of ten years ago. He likes to dismiss criticism of him as “scurrilous.
Anyone coming from another planet and looking at Lall would not know that this man composes the most scurrilous, venomous, ugly, malignant, dangerous, and deadly things about people, including this columnist. He wrote that he knows the three businessmen who built my house, much to the expansive anger of my wife. It was personally insulting to this woman, who spent all her life savings and her mother’s assistance to put a roof over our heads.
The next day after the Chase interview, Lall was his nasty self in his Kaieteur News column, in which his critics were dismissed using the most disgusting descriptions, in which they were likened to dogs. I quote him: “Truth and principle have been the first sacrificial lambs. Before that, character and self-respect went the way of the dogs. I pity the dogs.”
This is Lall, but let’s bring out more episodes of narcissism. A few years ago, Lall wrote that he got up from bed a few times at random way after midnight and saw a car circling his house, which he blamed on a state conspiracy. People laughed at him because it is only when he wakes up late at night that he sees the car.
Now let’s quote him from his daily Stabroek News letter yesterday (Monday): “They know where to find me, due to their continuous surveillance of my surroundings.” No one hates the government more than the editor-in-chief of the Stabroek News, Anand Persaud. He has more resources to use against the government, but Persaud has never complained that he is under state surveillance.
Lincoln Lewis hates the PPP/C Government and has more resources at his disposal to use against the government but Lewis has never informed the nation that his workplace and home are under surveillance. Henry Jeffrey writes as poisonously as Lall against the government but Jeffrey has never accused the state of spying on him.
I could go on to name names of people who are social media influencers living right here in Guyana and their views are carried farther in Guyana than Lall’s but we never heard them accuse the state of watching their every move. Someone like Kian Jabour comes to mind. So why is a young, energetic young anti-PPP activist like Jabour overlooked by the police spy agency and the police pick on a 77-year-old fellow like GKH Lall? Could it be narcissism or a runaway imagination? Maybe it is both.
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