I HAVE re-read three times the large letter on me that Nigel Westmaas penned on the day before (March 14), Stabroek News closed on March 15. That outlay of Westmaas is complex and probing and it looks like the anticipated 8 pieces of reaction may be longer. I suggest readers digest Westmaas’ letter because the contents go wider than his attacks on me.

For example, his theory of widening class disparities needs to be confronted because it has implications for understanding how both the state and society should react to increasing wealth. Discussion on widening class contradictions is for another part in this series.

For now, I want to reply to this part of Westmaas offering when he wrote: “Kissoon’s spate of repeated attacks directed against a small number of individuals is strategic. They provide diversions from more pressing issues within Guyanese society.”  Sadly, Westmaas will not develop this perspective and tell us who this small group is, what they want, which class they belong to and what their pronouncements are to which Kissoon has replied.

I will now offer what Westmass will refuse to do. This small group of people (TSG), I refer to as The Usual Suspects (TUS), belongs to the Mulatto/Creole class (MCC). I will now provide evidence of how deleterious their politics are to the preservation of electoral democracy in Guyana and democracy in general.

TSG (to which Westmaas belongs) took a graphic anti-democratic stance during the 2020 election disaster. TSG did not want the return of the PPP. Since then, their instincts and strengths have been directed against the Ali presidency. The action of TSG is based on race and class. My tsunamic reaction against TSG is based on their Freudian, eugenic soul that frowns on Hindu and Muslim Indians and dark-skinned Indians running a Caribbean country when that task should have been inherited by the MCC.

I will now lay before the eyes of this nation, the intention, agenda and politics of what Westmaas refers to as TSG that Westmaas believes I am attacking (his word). I am not attacking anyone. I am exposing a social class in Guyana that have cultural, anthropological and ideological objection to the PPP government and wants to weaken that government. And in the process of exposing, I believe I am educating this young nation.  I doubt with the death of Stabroek News, TSG will stop. They will not.

Forty-two of these persons, including Westmaas, sent a letter to President Ali demanding that Guyana stop oil production and advised the President in the letter that greenhouse emissions kill African people. No other race was mentioned. The names included TUS, plus the co-owner of Stabroek News, Isabelle DeCaires.

TUS has bought 13 High Court cases against the oil and gas industry. They have lost all but one, which is being appealed. This group is not stupid. If you are going to weaken the government, then target the economy. They know that with an oil economy, the country has a platform that could propel Guyana into the future and future elections will favour the PPP.

They did not get Guyana to stop oil production, so they resorted to court action against EXXON. Those 13 cases involved high profile lawyers, some of whom are from outside of Guyana. I once did a rough estimate of how much those court cases cost TUS. I came up with 90 million Guyana dollars.

Here now is an interesting situation that occurred on Friday. One of the litigants in those 13 cases is a lady named Danuta Radzik-Veira, from the land-owning Veira clan. This Radzik-Veira activist complained that she cannot get foreign exchange. She noted in the Kaieteur News last Friday that:  “This situation is very similar to years ago when, under the PNC Burnham Administration, Guyanese had little access to foreign exchange. In a twist of fate, Guyanese find themselves back to a situation which older folk felt they would not return to.”

This is the same lady, along with another litigant, Sinikka Henry, who asked the High Court to annul the Environment Permit for EXXON to operate in Guyana. Without oil, where will Guyana get foreign exchange from so that Ms. Radzik-Veira can apply for some?

Briefly, here are some parts of TUS whose activities Westmaas should address.  Guyana Human Rights Association – It stayed silent during the election rigging. It instigated trouble during the Cotton Tree double murder in September 2020. It is insanely hostile to the government.  Together with Red Thread and Transparency Institute –Guyana Chapter, they complained to GECOM that through the voting of Bangladeshis and Indian nationals in the 2025 election, the election was compromised. These are dangerous people that Guyana needs to know about. I am not finished with Westmaas, TSG, TUS and MCC. It is my work.

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