Dear Editor,
I refer to Mr. Frederick Kissoon’s letter in your edition of Thursday 22nd. All I did in my letter was to point out that larceny is a serious criminal offence. Mr. Kissoon had minimized it in a letter responding to an article of mine to which he took exception.

In his usual manner, when argument fails him, Mr. Kissoon resorts to personal attacks, insinuations and innuendoes wrapped up in questions. Once answered, he deems them inadequate and perpetuates his abuse.

When he cannot find enough questions to ask the person about himself, he asks about family members or other persons who he deems to be associates, as in my case.

For years Mr. Kissoon has been making the same insinuations in the same form against me and, shamelessly, members of my family. The fact that for all those years I never responded to him, except to correct some of his wild imaginings, in which he specializes, has never stopped him repeating the same questions over and over again.

I have never allowed myself to be baited by Mr. Kissoon and will not do so as a practice, especially now that his pomposity has been recently punctured by his recent admission that he was engaged in the theft of books. One would have thought that Mr. Kissoon would now exercise some restraint in his accusations against others of dishonesty, however long ago his might have been. This ought to have been the case having regard to the fact that he has kept his conviction concealed and a closely guarded secret, perpetuating the myth that he is a paragon of virtue while defaming everyone else who dares to challenge him. The opposite appears to have happened. Mr. Kissoon’s excesses appear to have escalated. And the newspapers, including Stabroek News, seem to wish to help him along by printing his most defamatory accusations against imaginary enemies.

I will, on this occasion, make an exception to my policy of not responding to Mr. Kissoon’s fulminations against me.

I will fully and comprehensively answer the rational (some are irrational) questions relating to me if Mr. Kissoon responds to the allegations made by Dr. Walter Persaud some time ago in the Kaieteur News and, more recently, by Dr. Pedro Archandro in the Chronicle of October 21, of Mr. Kissoon’s dealings with books from named bookstores in Canada and his attraction to liberation philosophy, which he maintains today in relation to humans, but which he allegedly developed in Canada as a student in relation to other people’s property.

Yours faithfully,
Ralph Ramkarran