[Onthebarricades] JAMAICA: Roads blocked in protest over road conditions

[Andy]

http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?story=36504&category=2

      Mon Jun 4, 2007 
      Blocked roads in Portland protest cleared 
     
           
            Taxi operators who took part in the protest lashed out against the condition of the roads. 
           
            The police have cleared sections of some roads which were blocked in Portland earlier Monday. 

            Activity is slowly creeping back to normal in Portland following the protests which closed down sections of the parish. 

            On the surface, it was bad roads which sparked the protests in the eastern section of the island. 

            It was the same roads which were used to register the protestors' resentment.

            In the aftermath, police and personnel from the National Works Agency spent the afternoon clearing roadblocks.

            So far the Wall Pen Road has been cleared, while attempts are being made to allow passage on the Hectors River to Anchovy Road.

            Some roads have been partially cleared rendering them accessible through single lanes.

            It was residents and taxi operators who blocked several roads in protest.

            These include the Manchioneal, Hector's River, Long Road and St. Margaret's Bay.

            The taxi operators used their vehicles to block the roads in Western Portland while trees and other debris were used in Eastern Portland.

            Taxi operators who took part in the protest lashed out against the condition of the roads.

            It was unclear whether the taxi operators have resumed duties. 
           
     
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