They attempt to project themselves as the guardians of society, upright and moral, but the underlying decay seeps out like effluent from a breached sewer.  They sit for hours and pontificate on issues, citing corruption by public officials and weaving their spider’s webs of conjectures, half-truths, and outright lies, hoping to catch the unwary voters.  They are the presidential hopefuls of Guyana, and one by one they are being exposed as paedophiles; as psychopaths; as thieves and fraudsters; as pederasts; as liars of no mean order; and as voyeurs, if not pornographic merchants.
And when they are caught in the act they scream their innocence, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but they have money and they can buy their way out of trouble, which they do, but there is a Guyanese proverb that says “ every day bucket a go a well and one day the bottom will drop out.”  And the day has eventually caught up with several of those who are convinced that their clever rhetoric and semantics will get them out of trouble and keep their reputations intact.
One paedophile, who purports to help vulnerable women, offers monetary and material help, then helps himself to their girlchildren, some of them little more than babies.
One Prakash Persaud and two other old clients recently exposed two fraudsters who, being lawyers, subverted the law to rob them of millions of dollars, even while offering themselves to the Guyanese as potential presidents.
Then there are the tax evaders and those who acquire the properties of others by questionable means.
And one must not forget the Globe Trust fiasco.
There was another expose when the police, acting on information, obtained and executed a search warrant on a building owned by another presidential hopeful.
The building houses several apartments, but the police were  able to access only one occupied by a female, who was the sole occupant.  The search revealed the existence of three covert cameras.  One that was hidden in a clock on the wall obtained a panoramic view of the apartment, another was hidden in a radio in the bathroom, and a third focused on her bed.
The police became suspicious that the perpetrator may have been in possession of pornographic material featuring the young ladies who rented the apartment from time to time and may be distributing pornography with these women as the unwitting central features.
During that incident, the perpetrator was chief executive of an opposition party that perennially accuses government functionaries of corruption.   .
However, it seems that once someone has affiliated him/herself to an opposition party they assume status above the law, because these criminals are hardly ever pursued by the law; or else they scream, along with their affiliates in the media, the GHRA, and NGOs, that they are being persecuted because of their political affiliations.
During the debates on NICIL and on corruption, they have scattered like scared chickens, running helter-skelter, because their ostensible exposes are being debunked, one by one, and their real faces and agendas are instead being exposed to the public.