Dear Editor,
I refer to Mr Annan Boodram’s letter (‘The only way Bisram’s findings can be disregarded is on the basis of his track record’ SN, August 24). Mr. Boodram wants me to disclose my source that researched Bisram in New York and couldn’t locate him as a teacher. This is funny. If Mr Bisram had told us where he worked I would not have needed a New York contact to research him. He could still do that and bring the mystery of his so-called teaching life to a conclusion. I will get a New York contact to verify the information he supplies on the existence of Nacta and his place of employment.
Secondly, Mr Boodram says because Freddie Kissoon says Bisram is not a teacher, so he, Bisram, is not a teacher. Why should anyone believe Mr Bisram when for all his life he says he has been a teacher but when asked to outline his teaching status he goes back thirty years and tells us he’s been to Corentyne High School with Khemraj Ramjatttan. Mr Boodram, Mr Bisram and Mr Ravi Dev know that there is no such thing as Nacta. One knows what it typifies. Once there was an organization named Nacta with some Dr This or Dr That as the Chairman, and Mrs This or Mrs That as the General Secretary and that Nacta is prominent in fund-raising, charity work, educational tasks and research engagements and could be contacted at its office on Liberty Avenue, then they would have shouted it out from the rooftop.
It is this same Boodram who, when confronted with his own letter on how much he travels and how many countries he conducts polls in, wrote that he makes up for the sessions he is absent from school by teaching during recess (I guess he means the summer). So all of Mr Bisram’s students who miss his class while he parades around the world, will have no holiday but will have to return for the summer just for him to make up for the sessions he missed. Annan Boodram was a student of mine at UG, and he should tell us how many of his teachers at UG were globe-trotting while he was a student at that institution. The more Bisram and his friends including Boodram and Ravi Dev put pen on paper, the less convincing they are about exactly who is Vishnu Bisram and what he does in life.
Mr Bisram has finally run into problems with many high names in the Caribbean. He was the subject of discussion at an OAS meeting where it was claimed he was a fake pollster. Guyana’s parliamentarian, Sheila Holder was at that meeting so media personnel in Guyana can contact her for what was said about Bisram at that OAS conference. Finally, I am convinced that Mr Boodram does not read the nonsense Mr Bisram writes. Mr Bisram openly wrote in the Kaieteur News that he is the highest paid teacher in New York, not one of, but the highest. Let me close by saying easy, not onerous, journalistic investigation would prove that there is no polling organization anywhere in the world by the name of Nacta, and there is no high school anywhere in New York that has a teacher on its permanent staff by the name of Vishnu Bisram. Mr Bisram, Mr Boodram and Mr Dev have their agenda when it comes to politics in Guyana and Trinidad.
Mr Boodram penned another letter (KN, August 28), saying that he knows where Bisram works, lives, where Nacta is located and who its executives are. We are supposed to beg Mr Boodram to give us details. But we know he never would. This is to supplement what Mr Dev has told us about how many Masters degrees Bisram possesses but not Masters in what. Finally, Mr Bisram wants parliamentarian, Ms Sheila Holder to answer some questions about an OAS meeting in which his fictional polls were exposed. I would advise Ms Holder to demand that he answer some questions first – which school in New York he works at; where Nacta is located; and what the names of its executives are.
Yours faithfully,
Frederick Kissoon