Trinidad Credit Union boss released on bail
by Marcia Braveboy
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Harry Harnarine,
President of the Trinidad and Tobago Hindu Credit Union (HCU) has been
released on TT$15,000 bail following his arrest on Sunday for leading what
police considered to be an illegal march from Free Port Convention Center to
the Piarco International Airport. Harnarine’s
bodyguards, Ronald Malchand 39, Norbert Ramdeen 21, and Elvis Sookhoo 22, who
were arrested with Harnarine, were also released on TT$10,000 bail each. The
four men were also charged with resisting arrest, and were instructed by Arima
magistrate Debra Quintyne to return to the court on July 30th.
Acting Police Commissioner Trevor Paul and Northern Division Superintendent
Ruthven Bastien both laid the charges against the four men for resisting
arrest, marching without a permit, and organizing such a march without
application.
Before being whisked away by bodyguards on
Monday, the HCU President told reporters that his militant approach was not
politically motivated and that there are no future marches planned; but urged
his members to submit petitions to the United Nations offices in the nation’s
capital, Port of Spain, with the hope that the UN will contribute to the
possible efforts made by the authorities to reduce crime in Trinidad and
Tobago. Harnarine led a march in the form of
a motorcade on Sunday, but the police on his arrival at the Piarco
International Airport halted his efforts. The halt lead to Harnarine’s arrest,
and the arrest of his three bodyguards.
Despite the moves made by the police,
Harnarine plans on holding a series of anticrime meetings through out Trinidad
and Tobago this week and asked that all citizens from every creed and race
post a black and white flag in their homes as a sign to the international
community that the island needs to be delivered from the constant crime
scourge that it faces.
The HCU boss indicated that the motorcade
entitled “Capital Flight” was for the purpose of sensitizing the Government
and public about the capital that is exiting the country and is affecting its
members due to the crime situation in the land.
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