Sugar workers shirtless in mugshots, Commander calls it ‘profiling’

The mugshots of eighteen of the twenty protesters who were arrested on Monday after they allegedly attempted to block the Canje Turn with wooden poles and structures to stop the free flow of traffic were taken shirtless and then released by the Commander of Region Six, Shivpersaud Bacchus to the media in Berbice.

Roopnarine Sukhu, 45, of Susannah Village; Fizal Kowlessar, 29, of Canefield; Satish Sanichar, 43, of Betsy Ground Village; Mohan Premchand, 40, of Betsy Ground Village; Keeron Bissondyal, 35, of Betsy Ground Village; Boojnarine Ramkisson; Doman Jagnarine, 55, of Canefield; Narinedatt Khemraj, 55, of Canefield; Waqueer Baksh, 30, of Reliance Village; Kemraj Balkarran, 27, of Canefield; Shawn Best, 30, of Adelphi Village; Joseph McPherson, 48, Goed Bananen Land; Raton Singh, 24, of Goed Bananen Land; George Southwell, 32, of Betsy Ground; Totaram Sanichar, 47, of Betsy Ground; Lance Boswin, 34, of Betsy Ground; Marlon Durant, 50, of Adelphi Village; Kippie Denis, 40, of Stanleytown; Satesh Jagnarine, 50, of Canefield and Nigel Ghangadin, 27, of Betsy Ground Village, all on Tuesday appeared before Magistrate Renita Singh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court where they were charged with obstructing the free flow of traffic, damage to property, unlawful assembly, and an act of terrorism.