He captured the essence of Dr Jagan beautifully
Please allow me to thank Mr S. Harald, former bodyguard to President Jagan, for his touching letter in the Stabroek News yesterday. He captured the essence of Dr Jagan beautifully: a man of simplicity who cared deeply for his fellow human beings.
Dr Jagan spent a week with me and my late wife, Lily, in Geneva and he was indeed such a simple and caring
Dr Kenneth Doka. As victims wade through different levels of grief they must confront various stages of anger, confusion, sadness and acceptance. If one feels betrayed or misled, it can lead to losses in the trust and decency of people, and even the loss of the initiative of doing the right thing.
The manipulation and exploitation of persons via social media – tailor-made for political campaigns – will only increase with the passage of time. The art of the online ‘con game’ and the subsequent vanishing act will become more sophisticated on unsuspecting victims. Safeguarding one’s family from such individuals is not an easy exercise. Recognising people who are of the dark triad type – possessing the cluster of three negative personality traits, Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism and psychopathy – is not a straightforward exercise person. For breakfast he had corn flakes and cold milk.
And he used press-cuttings to great advantage for research and writing.
I have handwritten correspondence from him written at a time when envelopes were in short supply in Guyana!
Thank you, Mr Harald.
Yours faithfully, Bertrand Ramcharan
since they are very clever and manipulative, and quite ruthless in their exploitation of those whom they regard as light switches to be switched on and off.
Max Ehrmann suggested in his poem ‘Desiderata’ that we, “Nurture strength of spirit” to shield us “in sudden misfortune”. This is the type of nurturing that we must increasingly offer to our children and mentees to help them develop the fortitude to guard against falling prey to charlatans in the employment, political or social sphere.