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 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.<\/p>

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\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all have to eat and survive in the same country,\u201d 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.<\/p>

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\u201cAs long as the government has a contract, give it to any company, we the locals need 80 per cent of the work, that\u2019s what we want,\u201d said another trucker.<\/p>

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The government has not issued any statement regarding the protest, but in 2021, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit \u201dassured the truckers my government was sympathetic to their plight,\u201d after he and senior government ministers and officials held talks with several truckers to address their problems.<\/p>\n

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 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. \u201cWe are hoping that some common sense will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPolice in Dominica brutalise peaceful truckers and tear-gas by-standers - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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