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FRIDAY,
JANUARY 08, 2016
VOLUME 110, No.01
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Luzette King being lifted by male police officers toward a waiting police transport. (Photo Credit: Caribbean Update News Service)
POPULAR NDP ACTIVIST ARRESTED
yesterday, Thursday 7th King, who arrived December, to answer a home sometime before LUZETTE KING, charge of ‘inconveniencing the December 9, 2015 Washington-based, the public’. general elections and was at the forefront of the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) campaign, was arrested last Wednesday. She had gathered with other NDP supporters that day, in front of the Electoral Offcie on Bay Street, to continue their protest against the election results. According to the NDP, the Unity Labour Party with 8 seats to the NDP’s seven, had ‘stolen the elections’, and the party had mounted a protest within a day of the December 9 poll, to show their non-acceptance of the result. Speaking after her release on station bail NDP supporters and bystanders seemed bewildered by the police action. by KENVILLE HORNE
Vincentian-born host of the popular Global Highlights radio programme, was set to appear in court here
early Wednesday evening, King explained that they (protestors) were approached by police officers, who informed them that they could no longer demonstrate in front of the barricades that had been erected to cordon off the area immediately in front of the Electoral Office; and that they should remove themselves to a distance of 200 feet away. Another protestor, Yvette Tittle, speaking with THE VINCENTIAN, confirmed that they had gathered outside the Electoral Office sometime around 9am, when the police arrived and asked them to move. The protestors inquired as to why they should
Yvette Tittle gave an eye-witness account of how the police officers treated King. move, with King taking a leading role in this regard, Tittle said. Continued on Page 3.