Press and Publicity Officer to the President Mr. Kwame McCoy was assaulted by PNC picketers yesterday at the commissioning of the new East La Penitence Health Centre.

Mr. McCoy told the Chronicle that he was seated in his car two buildings away from the Health Centre, with the windows down, when the picketers came up and flashed their placards in his face.

They rocked his vehicle in an attempt to overturn it, then they flung sand into the car, and some of this got into his eyes.