Sugar workers on $5,000 bail over assembling charge
Magistrate Chandra Sohan placed nine sugar workers on $5,000 bail each when they appeared before him at the New Amsterdam Court yesterday and pleaded not guilty to a charge of assembling for a disorderly purpose.
It is alleged that on April 14 the workers, George Southwell, Mahendra Sham, Bisham Bridgemohan, Shazad Ali, Fazir Ali, Nandalall Charrandas, Steve Braithwaite, Kumar Sanchara, Debra Simon and Leslyn Southwell, assembled with other persons for a disorderly purpose and did not disperse or move away when instructed by Senior Superintendent of Police Balram Persaud.
