An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it…Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained…Truth never damages a cause that is just…My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing him. Mahatma Gandhi
Introduction
The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc. (TIGI) held a press conference last Wednesday to announce Guyana’s ranking on the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index. This provoked a reaction from the Progressive Youth Organisation, the youth arm of the PPP, which issued a press release condemning the methodology used in arriving at the index. Included in the release was a personal attack on me as follows:
TIGI’s Vice-President is former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran who prior to 1992 was widely suspected to have colluded with the PNC to suppress the production of audited accounts and was complicit in the concealment of PNC mismanagement of
