Dear Editor,

I refer to yet another letter (SN, October 3) from Mr Harry Hergash, an unashamed supporter of the PPP who is a member of the Guyana-Canada Forum in Toronto. Mr Hergash seeks to lecture me on the essential tenets of journalism. Last week, Mr Errol Arthur, this time in the US, wondered how the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News could endanger their journalistic standards by publishing my views. Both Hergash and Arthur send their letters to the Chronicle where they get printed. Yet these men have the temerity to write about journalistic standards. Of course, it calls into question the motive of any human being that would castigate me for not complying with journalistic principles and arguing with the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News about their standards and yet is happy to have their correspondence published in the Chronicle.

It is not necessary to pen a comment on the motives of the Arthurs and Hergashes of this world. The Guyanese people are no fools. They know their politics. I am glad though that I provide some stimulus in the life of Mr Hergash. He seems to have an excessive interest in what I write. I hope one day he takes a similar stance on the President and ministers of the Guyana government. In closing let me say I don’t need a lecture on journalistic integrity from any person in this wide world that supports undemocratic government. I could not be bothered in the least about the accusations of Hergash and Arthur. I will definitely begin to be worried when people with a deep passion for the observance of human rights in Guyana begin to take offence at what I write.

Yours faithfully,
Frederick Kissoon