Mixed reaction to Pine action

For about five hours yesterday, the Barbados Police Service had The Pine, St Michael, on lockdown.

Speculation was rife as to why police officers, with assistance from Barbados Defence Force personnel, had set up road blocks by Collymore Rock, Meadow Road, Phillips Road, Parkinson Field, Factory Avenue, Princess Royal Avenue and the Wildey Road/Errol Barrow Highway junction.

Some thought it was due to a tip-off escaped convict Kishon Thomas was in the area, while others thought it...