Dear Editor,
I refer to Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s letter in your edition of Saturday, October 24. I will answer everything about my life that Mr. Ramkarran is interested in. And that is a solemn promise. All I ask in order to do that is for Mr. Ramkarran to tell me who is Dr. Pedro Archandro since Mr. Ramkarran is going on the basis of what that person says of me. What is he a doctor in? Which country he lives in? Where he works? This is all I ask of Mr. Ramkarran and I pledge to answer all his question of me. My friends in Guyana and all over the world are still searching through the internet and personal contacts to ascertain who Archandro is. I hope Mr. Ramkarran can stop the process by telling us who he is.
It is a sad day for any country when a citizen wants to become a president of his nation and reads and takes seriously one of the most vicious, gutter newspapers in the world. What does that tell you of leadership qualities? Let us hope when 2011 comes the Guyanese people will distinguish which candidate has leadership qualities from those who possess none
Let me quote Mr. Ramkarran so readers can be acquainted with facts rather than allegations from non-existent, fictional people writing in gutter newspapers. Here is Mr. Ramkarran; “For years Mr. Kissoon has been making the same insinuation in the same form against me…the fact that for all those years I have never responded to him…” Readers should know that in 2003 (yes, almost six years ago), instead of leaving me alone, Mr. Ramkarran sued me and Kaieteur News (the only PPP leader to have sued me). Over those six years, I have been asked by Kaieteur News management to respond to letters written to them by Mr. Ramkarran on some of my columns.
The latest of these occurred two weeks ago in which I am told Mr. Ramkarran wrote Kaieteur News management from Switzerland complaining about me and asking the newspaper to fire me.
Now in making this claim I have brought into play the management of the newspaper I write for which then puts me in hot water if I am lying on the newspaper I write for.
This is hardly the attitude of a man who ignores Freddie Kissoon. The content of the last letter to Kaieteur News threatens libel. Again this is a far cry from the words of someone who says that he ignores Freddie Kissoon.
Since few persons read the Chronicle, Guyanese would not know that I am featured regularly in Mr. Ramkarran’s weekly column for a newspaper that continues to violate every decent thread in the profession of journalism. In closing, I quote from that ancient saying that will live on once there is the spoken and printed word – “show me your company, I’ll tell you who you really are.” I await word on who is Archandro.
Yours faithfully,
Frederick Kissoon
