(Loop News) A woman from the town of Layou, located to the northwest of here, was, on Friday night, charged with wounding in connection to the injury that Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves received during a protest outside Parliament on Thursday evening.

Annamay Lewis is expected to appear in the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer the charge of wounding.

Lewis is accused of throwing a stone at the prime minister, which resulted in him receiving a severe head wound, during an opposition-organised protest against the government’s moves to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Vaccine hesitancy is high in St Vincent and the Grenadines as just over 9 per cent of the adult population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Gonsalves underwent medical treatment in Barbados where it was confirmed that he suffered a concussion.

He was expected to return home on Saturday.