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In a press release, it said that while it recognised the democratic right to protest, "the PNC seems happy to persist in making libellous and baseless charges against the administration."
A band of PNC/R supporters mounted a protest demonstration outside the hotel, accusing the Police of brutality and the Government of corruption, among other claims.
"Even ludicrous is its often repeated charge of police brutality coming just hours after a senior law enforcement officer was murdered at the hands of the five wanted bandits: an act the PNC is yet to condemn", the PPP noted.
The press release continued: "The nation recalls when the PNC treated the international community with disdain...its disregard of the international community's position on the 1997 regional and general elections and to an extent the March 2001 elections, are just recent examples."
"The PNC, it will be recalled, by banning basic food items, crippling the economy, engaging in rampant corruption and no Auditor General's report for the last 10 years of its rule, and total disregard for democracy and law and order showered disrespect on the nation", the main partner in the governing PPP/Civic alliance said.
"We are still today suffering from the image of a nation of suitcase traders, pick-pockets, smugglers and protesters. An image the PNC is keen on perpetuating for its own objective."
Referring to the PNC/R boycott of the debate on this year's National Budget, the PPP said, "The real motives for the PNC's recent walkout of the National Assembly during the Budget debate, threats of extra-parliamentary and undemocratic actions and putting the dialogue (with President Bharrat Jagdeo) on pause, for no genuine reason, are becoming clearer by its every action."
"It must be noted that the PNC's recent threats are akin to a local brand of terrorism designed to hold the country and its people hostage as it makes unreasonable demands as part of its scheme to grab power", it charged.
The PPP also called on the PNC/R to "cease fomenting an atmosphere of unease in the country."