{"id":130921,"date":"2015-01-12T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=130921"},"modified":"2015-01-13T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:48:23","slug":"petition-served-to-daspa-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/petition-served-to-daspa-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition served to DASPA boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_130922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130922\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-130922\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition-642x361.jpg\" alt=\"Linton and the delegation talk to police at the port on Monday \" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition-642x361.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linton and the delegation talk to police at the port on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opposition leader and MP for the Marigot constituency, Lennox Linton, along with two members of the community, on Monday delivered a petition to CEO of the Dominica Air &amp; Seaport Authority (DASPA) Benoit Bardouille on behalf of Vescort Jones who was fired as a port security officer on December 10, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, with over 500 signatures, is calling for Jones to be re-instated to his job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are calling for the re-enstatement of &#8216;Vesi&#8217; and so we have delivered a petition with over 500 names,&#8221; Linton said. &#8220;This is a clear act of political victimization for doing his job in the most professional and honest way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones was fired by DASPA after he allowed Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton, to dispose of crab backs that he intended to travel with but did not have the required permit to do so last year.<\/p>\n<p>Escorted by a heavy contingent of police, who had camped out at the Woodbridge Bay Port, Linton and the Marigot delegation were not able to meet Bardouille since he was not in his office.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP leader said Bardouille&#8217;s action went &#8220;far and beyond&#8221; the Labour Laws of Dominica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Jones) was transferred and also sent on leave and then fired, that can not be right,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that it appears Dominica is now a police state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dominica is now a police state,&#8221; Linton said. &#8220;We came to deliver a simple document and we were met with this heavy police crew. We did not meet Bardouille and was told he was out at a meeting but we left the document with his secretary who also gave us a receipt stating it was delivered to her and she will ensure that Mr. Bardouille gets it. We now await his response and that of the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He warns that they will be following up on the matter until &#8220;justice is served&#8221; and Jones gets his job back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130923\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-130923\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition1-642x361.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters with placards at the port on Monday \" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition1-642x361.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition1.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters with placards at the port on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130924\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-130924\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition2-642x361.jpg\" alt=\"There was a heavy presence of police at the port on Monday\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition2-642x361.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/port-petition2.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was a heavy presence of police at the port on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition leader and MP for the Marigot constituency, Lennox Linton, along with two members of the community, on Monday delivered a petition to CEO of the Dominica Air &amp; Seaport Authority (DASPA) Benoit Bardouille on behalf of Vescort Jones who&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":130922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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