A Ministry of Slanders in the making

Oct 21, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall

(Kaieteur News) – Congratulations are extended to the PPP Government.  It is now so resourceful that it now holds the trophy for the leading creator, packager, and distributor of fake news in the hemisphere.  So that all Guyanese get it clearly, the PPP Government is the biggest arranger of more than fake news, more than political propaganda.  The government is now so stretched in the department of vice and vindictiveness that a new ministry is being contemplated, just about a finished product, other than for some finishing touches.  Guyanese: get ready for the PPP Government’s Ministry of Slander and Defamation.

It will be headed by Minister Bouncer, which is a pseudonym for Minister No Balls (Not a Testicle).  On each occasion that she thinks that there is a wicket in hand, stepping over the line is called by the umpire, and with suspect action recorded for later escalation to the keeper of the rules.  The ministry malevolent ops will be run on a day-to-basis by Permanent Secretary Skirts.  There is no first name, because he or she prefers to be addressed as ‘they’ and ‘them’, and skirt is found to provide the kind of cover in which to hide.  The chief of slanderers and crew have filed for a waiver of copyright, so that they can take over the name Keystone Kops.  The Three Stooges provided brisk competition for a while, but the slanderers in the PPP Government are so many that the better home for them is Keystone Kops.  Whatever they have to get right, they inevitably get wrong, with a foul odor attached to themselves.

The Ministry of Slander operate in the vicinity of the Office of the Prime Minister, which affords the gang easy reference to the Office of the President.  It’s that kind of high-level, high-profile setup.  Can anyone imagine what is going on in Guyana today under the PPP Government?  The PPP Government is the leading peddler of sleaze in the nation, in the region, in the hemisphere.  And its members still complain bitterly about a man in Brooklyn and a Guyanese woman somewhere in New York, or some other hideout across the United States.  I have asked myself time and again a simple question: which president, which prime minister, which vice president, would want, be proud of, those rancid and rotted distinctions?  That the PPP Government is the owner of the title of Master Peddler (and Consumer) of the Sewer.  That the PPP in the sum of its many parts, most of them, have the privilege of roaming at will on social media.

AG Nandlall took the pains to inform Guyanese that there are laws that apply against such vile people.  When he learned of how many PPP loyalists are candidates for the psychiatric couch, and from there to a lunatic asylum to take up permanent residence, he is rethinking his approach.  The risk is just too great that too many PPP stalwarts could end up in the slammer.  Thus, he gets to keep an unsullied record relative to the supremacy of the law, and the attendant respect that he and the PPP Government have for it.  When developments like these are heard, it confirms what the law is really about in Guyana, where it is, where it’s heading, and its many immunities

The man in charge, His Excellency Mohamed Ali, said that he is declaring war on those who spread misinformation and disinformation.  It seems that his war ran out of steam, when the identities of the main contributors were repeated to him.  Slimy operators are a PPP asset.  Mudslingers are what the PPP is made of, thrives on, like a pig cavorting in his own excrement.  One of his advisers, a veteran of many years in the sewage department, reassured the leader that when the rumormongers and defilers are given free rein, then that’s the best expression of democracy and political credibility.  Since such is the norm in America today, then why the objection to the same happening in Guyana?  To top it all off, the same people reminded the president of who call the shots for the police.

So, why worry?  It was PPP Founder and Godfather, Dr. C.B. Jagan whose parting words were ‘don’t worry, be happy.’  What a party, what a set of nice, inspiring people!  Fake news and propaganda have been around forever in the PPP membership.  Why was it that Guyanese thought that they went to those terrorist schools in Bulgaria, Cuba, Romania, and Russia, and got drummed into their skulls?  Scripture?  When a national government is now the leading crime syndicate in a country, then what does that say about those who have full control over it?  Saints or sleazebags?  Crimefighters or criminal operators.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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