Big UNC crowd for Budget presentation

There were no plac­ards of protest, no an­gry chants and no demon­stra­tors de­mand­ing an­swers from the Gov­ern­ment.

In­stead, there were cheers, drums, danc­ing and em­braces out­side the Red House yes­ter­day, as more than 200 sup­port­ers of the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion gath­ered ahead of the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 na­tion­al bud­get.

Dressed in par­ty T-shirts, union T-shirts or sim­ply the colour yel­low, the crowd cre­at­ed an at­mos­phere al­most re­sem­bling a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) town hall meet­ing rather than the pre­sen­ta­tion of the coun­try’s an­nu­al fi­nan­cial pack­age.