Cash Plus members take protest to NCB in Half-Way-Tree

Cash Plus members take protest to NCB in Half-Way-Tree

Saturday, January 19, 2008

MORE than a dozen members of the informal investment scheme, Cash Plus Limited, yesterday staged a demonstration in front of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) branch in Half-Way Tree, apparently after the bank refused to honour their cheques.

According to an eyewitness, the approximately 15 demonstrators took to the street after they turned up at the bank to encash cheques and were turned away.

A female vendor said that after the bank refused to honour the cheques the noisy group went outside and chanted angry words against the bank.

They left several placards at the entrance of the building following the protest.

“A who run the country – Lee Chin or Bruce. Mama P, we miss you!” one of the placards read, while another screamed, “No investors to Jamaica. The Pirates are here …”

The Court of Appeal had on Thursday given permission for the bank to close 17 accounts in the name of the Cash Plus Group. Nine accounts in the name of the group were, however, allowed to remain open.