The Ministry of the Presidency yesterday denounced the behaviour of opposition party leaders and their supporters during a protest on Thursday as “hooliganism and thuggery” that would not be tolerated, even as they maintained that they were acting within their legal rights.
“The lawlessness exhibited…was a display of gross disrespect for the President, his Office, the Government and the occasion that was being held at the time,” the Ministry said in a statement.
It was referring to a protest by members of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), which saw a little more than 100 persons attempt to block his entrance to the Pegasus Hotel where he delivered the feature address at a luncheon hosted by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA). The protests follow the failure to hold elections in keeping with the constitutional provisions attendant to the passage of a no-confidence motion against the government since last December.
