State workers, opposition supporters face off over proposed budget cuts

One Laptop Per Family Project Supervisor Gillian Burton during the demonstration

Photos by Anjuli Persaud

Staffers of government agencies that face budget cuts proposed by APNU and AFC yesterday took to the streets to protest the move, while the state-run National Communications Network (NCN) warned that it would have to scale back its operations to save on costs.

Protesting along Brickdam on the eastern side of the Public Buildings were the administrative staff of NCN, the Government Information Agency (GINA), the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project and the Office of Climate Change. “No budget cuts,” the workers chanted yesterday afternoon before engaging in a war of words with APNU and AFC supporters,