Dear Editor,

With reference to the recent poll commissioned by your newspaper, I would like to take this opportunity to make a few comments. First of all, the hyperventilated verbosity of Frederick Kissoon is at work as usual when he questions the validity of the poll and attacks the pollster himself, Mr Bisram. Kissoon again shows his contempt for anyone who tries to help bring clarity to a very complicated political and social situation here in Guyana. Polling is a very important tool in any country in determining the mood and feel of the people concerning the issues facing them, and Mr Bisram should be congratulated in his pioneering efforts. Stabroek News should be proud to sponsor such polls and should continue such efforts.

However, Mr Bisram should not be touting his political ‘credentials’ with his series of letters which I see have been published and which dilute his polling credibility. Mr Bisram’s letters over the past months show him to be a person who is trying to let the reader know how connected he is to the Guyanese diaspora in New York while being a great ‘freedom fighter’ for democracy here in Guyana. Both of these claims have to be taken with a grain of salt, and his series of clashes with Freddie Kissoon in the letter section only underscores the point I am making……