According to Mr. Persaud, the press conference is guilty of gross distortion of His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo’s long stated position on the need for genuine and active national consensus on the fight against crime.

The public outcry at Mr. Hoyte’s fiasco in Buxton (his address to a public meeting) can account for the PNC/R’s most recent slew of distortions, misrepresentations and outright untruths against the administration, Mr. Persaud said.

Mr. Persaud said the PNC/R invents the untruth of a citizen being targeted by the Police because of his alleged action during the day of protest. This naked lie has also been reported by three opposition media outfits and can be the only source of this mischievous assertion.

He further pointed that the hallucinations do not end there. Messers Corbin and Carberry, without any evidence, claimed, “the Government has imported 12 new luxury vehicles for some of its top cadres.” Mr. Persaud queries: where are these 12 luxury vehicles? The PNC/R believes that we are in an era when a US$3M power barge, which never worked, can be purchased secretly and sneaked into the country.

Mr. Persaud referred to the activities of the PNC/R in trying to put the Government in a bad light. He said: "The October 17, 2002 press conference again falsifies the PNC/R's legacy in Government and misrepresents the achievements and progress of our people under the PPP/C. Perhaps the PNC/R should be reminded of where Guyana was when it was voted out of office in 1992. This state of affairs is well articulated by its last Minister of Finance, Mr. Carl Greenidge in the 1991 Budget:

“Reality, bauxite production was very disappointing.”

“Sugar output fell to 130,000 tons, a mere 76 percent of the original target.”

“Rice production, the lowest in 14 years, also fell some 40 percent below the target”

“There was a 30 percent decline in the output of livestock…”

“…GDP instead of rising, actually fell by some 3.5 percent. This is the second successive decline in this indicator.”

“An important pillar of the 1991 Policy Framework Paper (PFP), not unrelated to the foregoing point, pertain to the rehabilitation of the country's roads.

"No external assistance has either been secured or provided, for this exercise although we all recognise its importance.”