C pickets PPP/C meeting with ex sugar workers
the crowd if they were present to “argue”. She also told the protestors to not engage “them people”. However, this advice fell on deaf ears, as both sides continued to insult each other.
It was minutes after the last speaker, PPP/C Member of Parliament, Adrian Anamayah had finished speaking that one senior inspector and several other ranks arrived at the scene of the protest.
Meanwhile, despite stating that they would have protested at all meetings, Stabroek News observed that the protestors didn’t show up at the other meetings held in Canje yesterday.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, who had been expected to attend the meetings, was unable to make the trip, due to illness. However, he did address the former sugar workers via the telephone at the first meeting at Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice. Other meetings were held at villages in the Canje area and at Palmyra Village, Corentyne.
PPP/C members and supporters have been protesting the visits of the President and Prime Minister to Region Six, calling on them to review several of the government’s decisions. However, the President and the Prime Minister have always opted not to engage the protestors, except on one occasion when Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told the protestors to give [Bharrat] Jagdeo, the Opposition Leader his regards.