THE Office of the Prime Minister has noted an article appearing in Friday’s edition of the Guyana Times under the headline: “Nagamootoo wants presidential one-term limit.” The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, this article as a wicked and malicious distortion.

OPM in a statement said the article is part of what is undeniably an obsession with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and a vicious campaign of vitriol by the Ramroop Media Group against him.
The statement also pointed out that it must be noted as well that the Ramroop Media Group unrelenting attack on Prime Minister Nagamootoo unfolds alongside a similar manic obsession in the National Assembly by the members in the Opposition benches and led by the Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo.
Mr Jagdeo is a personal friend of Dr Ranjisinghi “Bobby” Ramroop, who is the de facto head of the Ramroop Media Group.
“The context of the comments made by Prime Minister Nagamootoo was deliberately excluded from the Guyana Times’ reportage. The Prime Minister had in fact been reporting on what the PPP’s founder-leader and his political mentor Dr Cheddi Jagan had shared with him as his thoughts on the matter as part of a broader discussion on the issue of term limits.
“It was Prime Minister Nagamootoo who had played a central role in Guyana’s constitution reform process and who featured in the introduction of the two-term presidential limit. As Prime Minister, Mr Nagamootoo has not advocated any change to this status quo and the continued campaign of desperation to create fissures in the coalition government has once again come to naught, as the coalition remains strong and united and resistant to these petty attempts at mischief-making and misinformation,” the statement said.
OPM said it nevertheless, once again, calls on members of the public not to be duped by the misinformation, falsehoods and distortions consistently published by the Guyana Time,s which has descended to a disgraceful level of yellow journalism.