Protesting and picketing – then and now

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The Guyana Constitution, under the provisions which “guarantee” our Rights and Freedoms, permits, even protects citizens wishing to engage in peaceful public protests and demonstrations against the widest possible range of issues which those citizens deem unjust or somehow against personal, community, workplace or national well–being.

That long opening sentence seeks to contextulise the fundamental right of Guyanese to protest when they or their representative group, wish to publicise and mobilise against some wrong – current or potential, real or perceived.

Both a Senegalese pal and an aggressive print–media columnist have caused me to reflect on the