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Barbadians are being urged to cooperate with each other and police as the island remains on a 24-hour lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus.

“You must understand the climate that we are in and we have to cooperate with each other,” Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant said yesterday.

She was dealing with a woman before the District “A” Magistrates’ Court for offences against a constable.

Amber Nisa Bootman, a 27-year-old room attendant, of Vaughn’s Land No. 1, St Joseph, initially pleaded guilty to using the insulting language – “I ain’t give a **** about police. Move from ’round me. You is a bare foolish police,” to Constable Makeba Brewster, as well as resisting and assaulting the constable, all on April 11. (HLE)

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