Cops fire on APNU protestors

APNU presidential candidate David Granger [left] along with Joseph Harmon and attorney-at-law Basil Williams [centre and right respectively] as they left the Brickdam Police Station compound yesterday.

Riot police fired rubber bullets at protestors in an illegal march in the city yesterday as APNU continued to press for the release of statements of poll from last week’s elections, copies of which will now be released following private sector intervention. (See other story on page 10.)

Police reported that they fired on protestors after they failed to heed orders to disperse, since no permission was granted for the march, but APNU leaders later denounced their “overreaction” to the situation. APNU presidential candidate