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Guadeloupe Demonstrations

Posted by CaribShout on June 30, 2009 at 9:30pm

POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP) - Between 1,200 (according to Guadeloupe police) and 3,000 people (according to the organisers), rallied on Saturday in Pointe-a-Pitre in a demonstration concluding the “week of mobilisation” called by the LKP protest movement, the group that organised the general strike at the beginning of the year in Guadeloupe. However, the “week of mobilisation” went almost unnoticed, with the picketing of less than ten service stations in Pointe-a-Pitre and the surrounding area and the occupation of one building for a few hours. Pointe-à-Pitre : Elie Domota (C), spokesman of the Collective Against Exploitation (LKP), a coalition of unions and leftist groups, attend a protest in Pointe-a-Pitre, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. AFP PHOTO Trades union representatives also reinforced strike pickets at ten companies calling for “the implementation of the Bino agreement”. This agreement envisages the takeover by the companies, in three years, of the 200 euros in wages currently financed partially by the State (100 euros) and the communities (50 euros). The agreement was extended to all local companies by the Minister for Labour. Elie Domota, spokesperson of the LKP, and the representatives of the “trade unions anticolonialists” of Martinique and French Guiana, marched at the head of the demonstration. They were followed by the delegations, organised by companies, of strikers calling for the application of “the Bino agreement”. Questioned by journalists during the march, Domota described the visit of French president Nicolas Sarkozy the day before in Guadeloupe, as an “operation of seduction and true mystification”. The LKP represents nearly all of the confederations and central trades unions in Guadeloupe. Caribbean Net News

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