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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Protesting truckers warned off by cops

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La Brea truck­ers backed down from a protest af­ter a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer warned of mass ar­rests if they con­tin­ued to block ac­cess to the Union In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, La Brea.

Act­ing ASP An­gus Har­ry brought the pro­test­ers to heel af­ter he ad­vised them that those who were in­sti­gat­ing protests will not be the ones who end up with a crim­i­nal record when the protest is over.

"It will be you, the res­i­dents, who will end up with a crim­i­nal record on your file," he warned.

The protests start­ed around 7 am at the Union Es­tate round­about. The South­ern Main Road was blocked, pre­vent­ing eight dump trucks and one wa­ter car­ri­er truck, be­long­ing to Ju­nior Sam­my Con­trac­tors Lim­it­ed (Jusam­co), from en­ter­ing the Union In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

Hold­ing up plac­ards the truck­ers vowed to pre­vent Jusam­co from paving a road lead­ing from the Union round­about to the La Brea port.See­lal Nar­ine and Si­mon Je­bodh claimed Sam­my had not of­fered em­ploy­ment to La Brea res­i­dents and small con­trac­tors.

Nar­ine said when Jack Warn­er was min­is­ter of works all con­trac­tors got work op­por­tu­ni­ties.

"How you ex­pect us to pay in­stall­ment? How you ex­pect us to live?" Nar­ine asked. PCs Daniel Boodoo, Dar­ryl Ram­lochan and Rishi Ram­dath ar­rived at the scene short­ly af­ter­wards. Boodoo threat­ened to ar­rest any­one who blocked the roads.

ASP Har­ry and four jeeploads of po­lice ar­rived short­ly af­ter. By 11.30 am the crowd dis­persed and traf­fic flowed freely once again.Sam­my was out of the coun­try yes­ter­day and could not be reached for com­ment. A com­pa­ny of­fi­cial said he was the on­ly per­son au­tho­rised to speak.

MP for La Brea, Nicole Olivierre, did not an­swer her cell­phone yes­ter­day but in an in­ter­view last week she said some of the con­trac­tors in La Brea have al­ready been giv­en con­tracts. She said the mat­ter of un­em­ploy­ment was be­ing ad­dressed.


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