Dear Editor,
Mr Faizal Jafarally, on a live call-in show with Minister Robert Persaud and Chairman of Region Six, Mr Mustapha referred to me as “Ms Leon Suseran and Mrs Leon Suseran,” in relation to my letter about the Corentyne cabinet outreach. This instance of ridicule is in addition to a programme he also hosted two years ago when he also referred to me in the same manner.
If I were thin-skinned I would probably have stopped airing my views in these columns, but words can do me no harm whatsoever. The blogs in Guyana have had and continue to have a field day poking ridicule and insults at public figures who stand out in Guyanese society –government or otherwise – and even letter-writers like me. I understand that these blogs too have their jobs to do. But when a public personality who is seemingly a respected official of the Guyana government in the Berbice region and who holds numerous government positions including one for the state media here, ridicules and mocks members of the public on live state television, in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture and Region Six Chairman and the entire Berbice community, then we have reached a new low in human politics. Indeed the PPP has gone further down into the gutter.
If some of us believe that they are doing something positive for the government or ruling party when they insult others on the airwaves in front of public officials then they lack sense. Don’t they know how they appear when they do these things?
Yours faithfully,
Leon J. Suseran
