IT seems that advocates (propagandists) on the governmental side have always been accused of distorting the facts. A good example of this is the case of Dr. Joey Jagan’s recent letters about Dr. Prem Misir in the daily papers. As is widely known, Prem Misir is an academic and weekly columnist of the Guyana Chronicle.
Misir’s topic range for his ‘Perspectives’ features is not limited to one subject area, thus, he has written quite a lot, from democracy, to suicide, race relations, the Middle East, President Obama, and even the Legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, founder of the PPP. Recently, his ‘perspectives’, as published in the Sunday Chronicle of March 6, 2011, detailed the life and legacy of President Jagan.
This was not his first analysis of Jagan’s legacy, and I am sure it will not be the last. In this edition of his Sunday’s Perspectives, titled “Cheddi Jagan’s legacy: National, Working-class and racial unity”, he described Jagan as a true ‘son of the soil’ who looked beyond race and class barriers to see that all Guyanese deserved to be protected and empowered. He was determined to show that the government’s place was not to divide or oppress its people, but rather, as President, Jagan’s dream was that all Guyanese would live together as one, under the umbrella of unity which was destroyed by the Burnham’s politics.
I must ask Joey this simple question; since Misir is according to him a distortionist of facts, did he misrepresent President Jagan’s legacy of unity in Guyana?
As the son of the late Presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan, Joey Jagan would be of superb acquaintance with his father’s politics and general interests in Guyana and Guyanese.

This son of Jagan must let us know once and for all, where whether the governmental advocates are distorting his father’s legacy.