Ooh shooot someone just burst Ralph Gonsalves head at the protest
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Several officers are now forming a shield between the police commissioner and protestors as protestors are throwing water at the commissioner and he is retaliating aggressively.
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Scene where Ralph Gonsalves was struck by a stone today and got his head burst on his way back to parliament. There’s a very charged crowd in Kingstown at this time.pic.twitter.com/0e1QW7gFdV
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Here’s the back story A series of protest actions started about 3 months ago wen a government senator and the assistant director of public prosecutions are said to have shot a man in his home. The people asked that the senator resign/be suspended and Gonsalves said no - 1/a few
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The case is now before the court it took weeks for anything investigations etc to take place, this infuriated people and caused the first set of protest actions. People reason that the government continues to interfere with the justice system (Yugge saga etc) 2/few
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Eventually the protest snowballed as the government was not successful in having conversations with the unions re vaccination drive, and a slow uptake in vaccination the government said people can be fired for not taking the vaccine
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People thought this to be wrong, the government moved to have an increase in vaccination by making it “mandatory” and also be amending the public health act basically giving employers the right to demand an employees health status. People think their health info is private. 3/few
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The amendments to the bill is believed To not be specific to covid vaccination and people are wondering what next in terms of their free will that will be taken away. See below screenshot of the reasoning of some people in Vincypic.twitter.com/ZhqIC8bjUt
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On Tuesday the service unions joined the call to encourage people to get to the picket lines. Ultimately resulting in a mixture of protests for several reasons.pic.twitter.com/5hath2crLs
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Bruh- this has several levels, I was just informed by someone in closer range of view that it was actually a police officer swinging the baton at a protester and missed and it hit the PM.
What on earth?! So much was happening at once.
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Different reactions today after the incident yesterday evening. Ultimately the amendments to statutory law was passed at 3:00 am this morning as parliament did not breakpic.twitter.com/1a8FfheNLa
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Just heard that Gonsalves is through with his consultation for MRI in Barbados and he’s fine and should be returning to Vincy tomorrow.
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Public Service Union on their participation in protest and the incidentpic.twitter.com/Oy8u3mzr26
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A woman was forced without a lawyer to make a confession of causing the incident . She was released on bail today.https://twitter.com/Lavern_King/status/1424765482704506881 …
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