Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, has this among its meanings for hypocrisy: ‘a pretense to virtue’ and ‘a pretending to be what one is not…’ Either serves well in identifying the essences of one crop after another of Guyanese politicians. The current head of the Guyana chapter of a reputable watchdog group with international footprints took it up several notches in the article titled “Politicians are experts at hypocrisy -Transparency Guyana President” (KN April 9). Now, we take it still higher: many Guyanese politicians are world class hypocrites, in a class of their own, and the higher they go up the political power ladder, the more blatant their hypocrisies.