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Nov 15, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
Frederick Kissoon’s “The day ‘Fineman’ flew a vehicle like a plane in the skies with red ants inside”, in Kaieteur News of Wednesday November 11, 2009, scaled new heights of public mischief by a private columnist with a well-known political agenda.
Kissoon has the right and freedom to share his views, compliments of this government’s normal respect for democratic freedoms. No need to mention that he would not have enjoyed that freedom under his nemesis L. F. S. Burnham.
Those who care to and who are more competent can respond to Kissoon’s larger intent and conspiracy theories contained in the article in question – that many of the very real attacks on people’s lives and public property were the machination or “orchestrations” by successive PPP governments or the “the PPP”.
However, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport takes umbrage over Kissoon’s contention that the fire-bombing and shooting of the Ministry’s Head Office was merely some distraction to counter the intended boycott of CARIFESTA X by government’s professional detractors.
Kissoon dubs the very real terroristic fire-bombing as “a comical episode”. How frivolous with his pen can this attention-grabber get? What if persons had died? Who would have benefited from the burning down of the Ministry of Culture on the eve of CARIFESTA if not the usual destabilisers?
Numerous spent rounds of ammunition used in high-powered weapons were found in the Ministry’s Main Street Compound and offices. (Note that the scene of the attack was the Ministry’s Head Office and not the “CARIFESTA Secretariat”, as claimed by the columnist.)
To trivialise evil, deadly attempts by saboteurs as Kissoon does, to insult people’s intelligence and make fun of what could have been another devastation of the people’s properties by anti-government forces. Is there no editorial restraint whatsoever on this rampant journalistic campaigner?
Please Mr. Editor it is the type of nonsense, which encourages and promotes the breakdown of law and order in our society. Please sir, our society deserve better.
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport
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