Guyana Manganese Inc. (GMI), operating out of Matthews Ridge and with offices in Georgetown, is breathing life back into the manganese industry that Guyana was once proud of, but which almost died a slow death over the past several decades, thanks (in the main) to the inability of the state to attract investors to pump-in the money needed to save it.
Up comes GMI, which invested the required capital to give life-support to the industry and create employment in the North West District between Port Kaituma and cargo ships at the mouth of the Waini River, in the process and along the way providing employment and enabling previously-unemployed citizens in the hinterland areas concerned to also earn a living.
But no sooner the industry starts looking like it has come off life-support to start walking again, up comes the usual baseless and politically mischievous criticism by mindless suspects who seem bent on shooting-down every bright star that appears on Guyana’s horizon under this administration.

Like GMI, we will not here repeat the utterly ridiculous claims in the volumes of allegations unsupported by facts, but the company has been forced to defend itself through a press release.
In this (latest) case, GMI was able to nail the writer’s claims with clarifications he and his outlets could have had, if only they were interested in finding the truth. But instead, and with all but truth on their minds, the writer, publishers and broadcasters concerned all preferred to air and print fake claims, without any effort to get the facts from the company, whose telephone, e-mail and others communication numbers and addresses are available to all.

GMI naturally viewed the latest publication of untruths about its operations as “an orchestrated attack on our company,” also noting, “In fact, Kaieteur News has in the past written several derogatory articles about GMI without seeking clarification or comment from the company.”
The company has correctly taken a position to “not lend any credence to these articles, as they were based on falsehoods” and expressed its hope that its clarifications will “bring some clarity to this issue and expose Kaieteur News and Mr Lall’s lies.”

But what Guyana has learned and GMI may only now be finding out, is that it’s up against persons and their media outlets that prefer to specialise in fabrication instead of verification and will stop at nothing to mine new lies when old ones fail to yield expected returns.
Characters who’ve failed by all other means to attract attention of citizens and voters through lies and misrepresentations are now only using new tools for the same old purpose of encouraging people to take them seriously when they say black is white.

If one listens to the same usual suspects, Guyanese will have nothing to benefit from highway upgrades or major improvements in any sector, as long as it’s done under a PPP/C administration.
Obviously, that’s not the view of the majority of Guyanese voters and citizens, which is why they can only win ‘nice’ votes on Facebook, from those who don’t face the realities on the ground and can be easily misled by garbed and garbled performances by would-be election candidates who know they simply can’t attract votes from Guyanese, the majority of whom live the truth and can see and smell the lies from afar.
As such, the online propagandists of disinformation are destined to continue trying new ways to achieve their old and elusive dreams of influencing Guyanese to think and act against their interests. Sad for them, those days are long gone!