Protestors recount shooting panic

Lurlene Nestor shows where she was injured

By Marcelle Thomas

A seven-year-old boy was among several persons who were injured after police fired rubber bullets to disperse an illegal protest march in the city yesterday.

Johil Mathis was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital along with former PNCR-1G MP Joan Baveghems, 69, Sarah Johnson,75, and Brentnol Holder 61, Lurlene Nestor, Celeste McRae, Alana George, and Kathy Nurse. APNU activists attorney James Bond and retired Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Edward Collins were also among the injured and they were treated elsewhere.

The protest was organized to