The protests initially began in Guadeloupe on 20 January 2009.[1] An umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon (LKP) called for a ???200 (US$260) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.[1] The protesters proposed that authorities lower business taxes as a top up to company financ