The PNCR-led protests against the rising cost of living moved to New Garden Street in front of the Office of the President yesterday, where for more than an hour a number of persons chanted slogans and waved placards under the watchful eyes of police.
Under the searing midday sun, the group traipsed after PNCR leader Robert Corbin shouting slogans such as ‘Forget CARIFESTA, deal with hunger”, “5% can’t work”, “in the wrong mood, can’t buy food”, among others. They carried placards bearing phrases such as ‘I have an empty rice pot’, ‘VAT and PAYE killing the workers’, ‘Punishing people with poverty’, ‘Reduce the VAT, that is likely to impact’, among a number of others. Corbin walked with a sign that read ‘A hungry man is an angry man’.
