GUYANA Times is at it again, except this time they’ve promoted themselves from misinterpreting to downright fallaciousness in a recent report that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo had been “stripped of all ‘line duties’ and that he now reports to Minister of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon.The article, also carried verbatim by Guyana Times’ new sibling media house iNews, has since been denounced by the Prime Minister in a statement coming out of the Office of the Prime Minister, Ministry of the Presidency, calling it “malicious, wicked and utterly false”.

The original post indeed started much racial tension on social media — as such posts are likely to do — and the PM warned Guyanese of the campaign being rolled out against the coalition government, particularly the Indo-Guyanese members, by the Ramroop Media Group. Many were glad that the statement set the record straight, and hastened to point this out. All this only makes the “Beacon of Truth” look worse than it already does.

PPP member Priya Manickchand, going solely on the word of Guyana Times, took to social media to share her eloquent view on the matter, stating that the pact the APNU and AFC made upon becoming a coalition was broken, and Nagamootoo’s voice and responsibilities were “taken away from him”. Manickchand’s words were harsh, going so far as to refer to the PM as a “toothless puppy dog.”

As usual, she lacks decorum, and has seemingly forgotten that she is referring to the Prime Minister of Guyana.

The PPP, of course, had the article emblazoned on its page, stating that “‘comrade’ Joe (Harmon)” is now second only to the President -– inciting arguments and cuss-outs among an already restless public. But in the words of Imran Khan, who happens to be the PM’s Press Secretary but who at the same time made a valid point, “That right-thinking persons still give credence to anything published by Guyana Times is interesting, if not incredulous”.

To think that all this came about because of the PPP’s failed attempt to have persons picket the Prime Minister’s New York trip. If the PPP would go to such lengths only a few months in, one shudders to think what will be the state of things at the next general elections.