The National Under-17 football squad preparing for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualification tournament next week was holed up in the volatile Linden community as residents started a five-day protest over a hike in electricity tariff.
Reports coming out of the mining town indicate that Police fired rubber bullets on protesters who staged a protest on the main bridge separating Mackenzie and Wismar yesterday. The footballers, who are due to wing out to neighbouing Trinidad and Tobago this weekend, started a one-week live-in camp
