Police in Dominica brutalise peaceful truckers and tear-gas by-standers

 Police officers in riot gear, used tear gas Wednesday, in a bid to end protest action by truckers, who used their vehicles to block the main highway on the west coast of the island, leaving hundreds of people stranded and unable to travel to work and school.

“We are hoping that some common sense will prevail. Our position still remains the same. We really would want to have guarantees that every time there is a project on island that we have some form of say in it.

“We all have to eat and survive in the same country,” said Everson Magloire of the Tipper Truckers Association, as he sought shelter from the tear gas dispersed by the police at Canefield, three miles north of the capital.

“As long as the government has a contract, give it to any company, we the locals need 80 per cent of the work, that’s what we want,” said another trucker.

The government has not issued any statement regarding the protest, but in 2021, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit ”assured the truckers my government was sympathetic to their plight,” after he and senior government ministers and officials held talks with several truckers to address their problems.

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