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**Mosiah** · February 27, 2007, 10:00 PM

RE: Point Update

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Workers are now being asked to present an <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">identification </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">card</SPAN>, and are searched before entering the premises.

And where is the problem? If you don't have an ID, you don't exist! Get with the modern world!

However, workers complained that the process is lengthy, and would have resulted in them getting into the work site after an 8:00 clock deadline.

The company is not going to short themselves of workers. Those who got there early will get in first. If you are not in that bunch - tuff!!

It is reported that the workers who wanted to enter the site before the deadline then started jumping the perimeter wall.

Security personnel based at the hotel, who tried to prevent the workers from scaling the wall, were reportedly stoned.

It is also reported that the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">security </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">guards</SPAN> responded by firing shots which hit one of the workers.

What did they expect?!? Don't know the full story, but if the security guards felt threatened...

The police who were called but their presence did little to calm the protestors who then set fire to the site office and canteen, destroying them.

Four motor vehicles and several other buildings were also burnt by the irate workers.

The police say some of the offices were also looted.

Thugs! They don't deserve a job. They deserve prison!

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**MdmeX** · February 28, 2007, 10:55 AM

RE: Point Update

(These illiterate misguided fools - where them going to get work from?) They should be in jail.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Rioting forces shutdown of hotel project</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Worker shot and injured; offices, motor vehicles destroyed</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>HORACE HINES, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=359 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>The main office of the Fiesta Hotel development at Point, near Lucea in Hanover, goes up in a thick pall of smoke yesterday after protesting workers set the building ablaze. The workers, who were upset that persons without identification cards were not allowed to enter the premises, stoned security personnel on duty. The situation worsened when a worker was shot and injured, as angry workers stormed the construction site, where they set fire to buildings and motor vehicles. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>LUCEA, Hanover - Work on the US$150-million Fiesta Hotel development at Point, near Lucea, has been suspended indefinitely, following a violent clash between construction workers, the police and security guards.<P class=StoryText align=justify>One construction worker was shot and injured, while fire was set to three offices and several motor vehicles belonging to the Spanish hotel chain.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The injured worker, Alvan Campbell, 54, of Prosper in the parish, was admitted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital and was last night said to be in stable condition.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Last night, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in a statement, called for a full investigation into the disturbance, and expressed sympathy to the injured worker.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Simpson Miller, according to Jamaica House, instructed her minister of development, Donald Buchanan, to convene an urgent meeting of the parties involved to try and arrive at an early resolution.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=350 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake (left) addressing workers in front of the Fiesta Hotel development at Point, near Lucea, after an uproar in which sections of the property were set ablaze by protesting workers . </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>According to a member of Acid Security firm, employed by Fiesta, the conflict began after the management of the Spanish hotel chain gave orders that workers without identification cards should not be allowed on the premises.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The security officers said the situation worsened after guards closed the gates at 8:00 am and refused to allow workers without IDs to enter.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Workers, upset that they were locked out because they did not have their IDs, threw bottles and stones at security guards, who opened fire in defence, hitting Campbell, who had only just alighted from a cab and was in the process of paying his fare and was not a part of the stone-throwing workers.<P class=StoryText align=justify>However, angry workers, in retaliation, ripped open the gate and set fire to the canteen located near the gate of the property, the main office, the equipment office and six motor vehicle, including two trucks, destroying them. Six other vehicles received minor damage during the riot.

**Muadib** · February 28, 2007, 12:18 PM

RE: Point Update

Dem fool fi true..

Yuh gwine fling stone and bokkle after man from ACID Security ???

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