Coalition supporters protest PPP outreach meetings in Berbice

Jan 26, 2018 News

APNU/AFC protestors outside the outreach meeting at Angoy’s Avenue

What was supposed to be a peaceful picketing exercise by A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change members and Councillors, turned out to be an afternoon of drama, after the protestors hurled insults at persons attending the meeting along with threats.
One male protestor was heard yelling at a female, “I would slap you”, the woman eventually rode away refusing to engage in an argument with him. Another was heard telling a laid-off sugar worker to “go and thief nuh then”.
The heated exchanges began after national executive member of the AFC US diaspora, Derek Basdeo began shouting and throwing remarks at the Regional Chairman David Armogan. He questioned why Armogan was conducting meetings rather than tending to regional administration affairs.
The police were subsequently summoned to the scene after the arguments began to escalate.
Members of the Peoples Progressive Party were at the time hosting a meeting with laid off sugar workers and residents of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam.
Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo was scheduled to head the meetings, but he was a no-show as it was indicated that he was ill.
Chairman for the Peoples National Congress/A Partnership for National Unity Region Six Kirk Fraser explained that the protest was done to inform the people that the closure of the sugar estates were not as a result of the government, but rather “one in keeping with ensuring that the Guyanese people receive value for their money”.
“The government has put $32B into the industry from 2015 to 2017 in which no returns have been received from the industry. We cannot allow tax payers’ money to go down the drain without receiving any financial returns.”
Fraser said that they would be protesting all the meetings organized by the PPP, however, they were not present at the remaining two meetings held in Canje.
Several meetings were held yesterday with sugar workers by PPP members.

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