Freddie Kissoon

Who is Freddie Kissoon?

Frederick Kissoon currently writes the daily "Freddie Kissoon Column" in Kaieteur News, a daily newspaper published in Guyana. Other columnists for Kaieteur News include Adam Harris and former columnist Peter Ramsaroop. Kissoon lectured at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Guyana. In 2012, Frederick Kissoon became involved with a contract dispute with the University of Guyana and his contract was terminated.

Kissoon initially made his impact in the 1970s as an "anarchist freshman at UG trying to confront the establishment of Forbes Burnham", a former President of Guyana who was considered by many as a dictator. At that time he was a member of the Working People's Alliance led by Walter Rodney. Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion while running for office in 1980.

In 1988, Kissoon became a columnist for an independent Newspaper, the Catholic Standard. At that time, the Catholic Standard was the only independent newspaper in Guyana. The other newspapers were the Guyana Chronicle, a government controlled newspaper, and The Mirror, a newspaper of the then opposition party, the People's Progressive Party led by Cheddi Jagan.