Dear Editor,
Mr. Vishnu Bisram’s reply in his letter captioned “I did not intend to cast aspersions on Dr Jagan” (08.03.07) to Janet Jagan’s accusation against him of gossip was downright pathetic. It goes to show the type of scholar Mr Bisram is. He is easily scared by the outburst of Mrs Jagan. Mr Bisram’s response to Mrs Jagan is replete with profuse apologies over what all Guyanese know to be true about Dr Jagan’s heart attack. Mrs Jagan accused Mr Bisram of gossip when he wrote about corruption under Dr Jagan. Bisram opined that the severity of financial perversity may have triggered Dr Jagan’s heart attack. Mr Bisram is saying this in 2008. We who live in Guyana knew about this at the time of Dr Jagan’s death.
It is important that writers put down their thoughts in printed form so that when later leaders of the PPP continue with their caricature of history as the present ones do with the events of the sixties, the alternative interpretations would be there. This is the hurdle my generation had to endure. We only had the “West on Trial” to lead us into the valley of truth. It took us into the chasm of lies and deceit. Thankfully, the present society in Guyana has access to reading materials on the bankrupt policies of Dr Jagan throughout his career, and which are largely responsible for the tragedy that has been concretized in our collective psyche.
Many of us knew that Dr Jagan was under tremendous mental strain, given his age, over the cancerous rise of corruption in the government he presided over. In all honesty, Dr Jagan never personally condoned these massive acts of corruptions but at one point he gave up because he was drowning in a cesspool of financial pathology created by his prot