PM declares union protest a bust; tells marchers to return to work Monday

Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared yes­ter­day’s trade union protest against her Gov­ern­ment a “bust,” telling those who par­tic­i­pat­ed that their mes­sage had been re­ject­ed by the pop­u­la­tion and that they should re­turn to work on Mon­day.

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The Prime Min­is­ter al­so shared an aer­i­al pho­to­graph of the demon­stra­tion via so­cial me­dia, which ap­peared to show a low turnout, while sug­gest­ing that the me­dia would not pub­lish the im­age. How­ev­er, the pho­to­graph has since been chal­lenged by peo­ple who ques­tioned whether it was tak­en at the height of the protest, ar­gu­ing that it did not ac­cu­rate­ly re­flect the num­ber of peo­ple who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the march.