Dear Editor,
I saw Mrs Jagan twice on television after the death of her husband, saying that it used to pain her to see the nasty things people say of Dr Jagan. I have been married for 30 years now with an 18-year-old daughter, and I have carefully advised them over the long years that people will say nasty things about me and they must never ever let it bother them in the least because bad people, flawed people, unfair people, powerful people, selfish people, unjust people, exploitative people will resort to saying and writing nasty things about independent minds.
In the middle of the eighties, when Mr Hoyte was in power, a well-known supporter of the government of the day gave a GBC Viewpoint, and informed his listeners that I was declared persona non-grata in the Caribbean and that I was barred entry into Dominica and Bahamas. It was a complete falsehood but I didn’t sue. Such scandalous stories about me have gone on since then, right up to the present time. I can name Clem David, Roger Moore, Tony Vieira as persons I have seen on television casting aspersions on my character. I didn’t sue them. Now there is Walter Persaud who has added his own brand of nasty attack on my character.
