A reliable source at Congress Place, headquarters of the David Granger led People’s Nation Congress (PNC) has informed us that they party has mobilized some of its supporters in an effort to launch a counter protest against Amerindians protesting opposition cuts to the Amerindian Development Fund. The PNC’s history is rife with instances of organized protests which become violent. The party and its supporters have also been noted for using intimidatory tactics in an effort to scare detractors.
There is a concern that this planned counter-protest is an effort to intimidate the Amerindians who have been protesting peacefully for several days now. A similar protest last week by workers of the sugar industry successfully caused the PNC led APNU and its AFC opposition counterpart to backtrack on threats to cut from the national budget $6B allocated to aid the sugar industry. The source said that the PNC fears it may be losing ground in the area of street protests and this act is aimed as dissuading all other groups facing budget cuts that might be inclined to take a similar route to that of the sugar workers and Amerindians.