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De­spite a po­lice pres­ence on the pe­riph­ery of Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s, the of­fi­cers could not con­trol the crowd of sup­port­ers that mobbed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as she at­tempt­ed to leave the com­pound fol­low­ing her swear­ing-in yes­ter­day.

While the usu­al pro­to­col of Pres­i­dent’s House was be­ing main­tained on the com­pound, across the way on the edge of Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, the sound of tas­sa drums, horns and chants of “Kam­la! Kam­la!” jux­ta­posed the emo­tions of the oc­ca­sion.

The peo­ple, a mix­ture of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) sup­port­ers, had kept them­selves in or­der for most of the af­ter­noon.