(DNO) Police have frowned on recent protest actions which have included the blockage of public roads and have guaranteed that all will be done in order to bring such offenders to justice.
Deputy Police Chief Cyril Carette, who spoke to media today at the Police Headquarters, said that these actions are sometimes done without thinking and could have dire consequences.
“Lives could be lost, the ambulance could be travelling and it’s blocked… You could have the fire service going to a fire and just because the fire truck cannot pass then you find property is destroyed. So we have to take those things into consideration when we are going to take such action.
“… We are once again urging persons to desist from engaging in such illegal acts, it’s a violation of the law and we will take whatever action necessary within the law to ensure that persons are brought o justice whether at the time they committed the offenses or subsequently. We need to understand that when we do those things that there are consequences. And some persons do not think before they do those things. We need really to resolve all our issues by peaceful means,” Carette said.
Carette strengthened his comments by mentioning the case of five Calibishie males – which include one juvenile – who were charged last Friday for their participation in a recent Calibishie protest.
According to Carette, on May 6, 2010, the five males appeared before the Magistrate’s Court in Wesley on charges of disobeying the public order act, being a public nuisance and obstruction under the traffic act.
They all pleaded guilty. The adults were bond over to keep the peace, in the sum of $1,000 for two years, in default, six months in prison. This means that they should not commit any offense within a two-year time span or they will either pay the said cash sum or go to jail for six months.
The juvenile will reappear at the magistrate’s court on June 23, where decision will be given following the receipt of a probation report on him.
Carette reiterated: “They were warned to desist from engaging in such illegal acts… We must talk of this sort of decadence that we having in society. When we look at what is happening over the world today, we do not want those things to come to Dominica. We do not want such violence to come to Dominica. And we will do all in our powers to stamp out such violence in Dominica.”
i dont know if the police we have in dominice watch news when and where you see people have protes and thay dont block roads come on if things r good there is no need to block roads them man just want to do what thay want when thay want and you must not do or say nothing thay know just what is.lands to go when thay want to have good times i see them all the time so people in dominica dont leave d/a and go nowhere so thay dont see them i do then thay go back to dominica i tell dominicans that we cant have things i think dominica has the best water and the best tools to get good roads i dont see why dominican have to protes to have good roads comeone d/a people see the big pictur them man is playing with some of you all not me thay cant
Neg sout wii. hehehheh
Those f…..ing police like to shine there light on calibishie. First they want us to aid them to fight drugs which will never happen now they want to get us in another way but tell them it werent happen. we took there nonsense for to long. As for matthew walters dont make him come no where close to bishie. the damn minister of kick-kick. demand a by-election in calibishe and they will see how fast t he will get his a** out of there. instead of those people in parliment running there mouth and not doing the peoples business and worring about eddie and worker that for them to study. labour u got to work hard to get back our trust for next election
if one of allu children was in trouble is in the police station allu would run
i wonder if one of allu house had caught fire while allu protesting how the
fire truck would reach allu house………do so neva like so
once allu not in the fire allu can not feel the heat
is time for that blocking road business to stop an start expressing allu views
some other way
stupesssssss man
let the country go on in peace
so thats what da coming to. you all better do what needs to be or else you police in serious problem.keep aresting people for their rights. it should have never come to that.
as far as i am concern if blocking the road is what brings results then the dam road should be blocked. when the president car tires got slashed right in police headquaters that was not the police taking the law into their own hands. who the hell got charged. we are now going to take protest to another level mr carrette
JUSTICE IS SERVED, DOMINICANS SHOULD LEARN HOW TO PROTEST PEACEFULLY WITH THE INTERVENTION OF THE POLICE.
but why they going all out talking about protests and making all these threats? since when dominica police serious about crime prevention? what’s with all the anti-protest talk by the police?
did they receive a directive from higher up?
are they anticipating more dissatisfaction from the people on this next level?
is this a way of scaring them people they would think of doing something bigger and on a national level?
Stay Tuned folks…
I am a suppoter of the Law and the if they arrest some they should arrest all. the double standard being set by the police will back fire one day. i hope the pal rep. for that community can show his face there seeing that the Labor party publicly stated that he did not have to campain in Calibishie.
once again we have seen how we are treated on the next level.
Election is over take what all you get.Shout it out “Labour Power”!!!!
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Mr Carette is right to raise this issue. Obviously the people involved in doing this don’t think of the implications of their stupidity. What if an ambulance in an emergency situation get stuck at one of those barriers and the patient dies as a result of the delay in getting him/her to hospital? or fire and emergency services get held up, would the perpetrators be willing to bear the responsibilities of the implications of such stupidity? This type of behaviour is anti-social and disorderly by nature and designed to terrorise other Dominicans who believe in abiding by the rule of law. These mindless minorities should learn to behave more responsibly and punished for their stupidity.
suggestion; Next time after blockin any road as a form of protest Carette’s mouth should be blocked.I will walk with something to do just that. Time to take it to a better level.
that can’t stop guys from blocking the roads.next time there will be better preparation and no one will be caught on camera.no evidence no arrest its that simple.
man if thats the way we can get things done lets do it block road until they fix it 2 hell with the poo lice do yall things i support 100%
This practice is so anti modern day that I wonder when it’s going to stop. We need to wake up and fiind new ways to air our grievances. If my moda or fada loses her/his life because of this nonesense there’ll be hell to pay.
Okay, when it was Kalinagoes protesting they were stupid. Now its Nigga what are they? perfectly intelligent?
Good that they are paying a price for the road blocking.let’s just demonstrate in a peaceful way.
I Like That!!!!! These people too wicked. Charge all of them!
It is important that the Police continue those cases so that justice can appear to be done. When I heard that a Kalinago man had been charged for blocking the road some time ago I wondered why just him. But Calibishie has come up and I suppose we will see similar cases in St. Joseph, Coulibistrie and other communities where roads were blocked because the police took pictures and video in all of those areas. If it is illegal, not some but all those who do it should pay.
Finally! Because allu get nuff maypuis on DNO for arresting the carib guy allu go after the Calibishie guys too. Now go and get those in Layou that did the same thing and so on. Equal justice under the law. Thanks DNO for giving us a forum to demand equal justice under the law. Better late than never but at least the police can now say they treating everyone the same and not only the malayway. The Hon. Karkabeff waiting patiently to see if the layou people will be prosecuted too. After all, Mr..Carette himself was present during the demonstration so he cant say the roads were not blocked or he has no idea who did it.