Two street vendors engaged in a brawl outside the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday drew several spectators and had to be chased away from the area by the proprietors of a nearby restaurant.

THE STAR was on the scene and witnessed the fracas that happened about 2:30 p.m.

Interestingly, a policeman who was standing in proximity did not make an effort to restrain the men.

Allegations are that a dispute developed between the men because they were both calling each other names.

A female vendor who was among several other vendors trying to encourage the men to behave themselves told THE STAR that, "One a dem start call the next one name and when the next one start call him back name him cyan manage it."

THE STAR understands that both men were calling each other homosexuals but when the one who allegedly began the name-calling was called a homosexual, he became offended.

'gwan ramp wid mi'

"Me will blood yuh up, me will blood yuh up, bet say me blood yuh up, gwan ramp wid mi," one of the men shouted.

This led the owners of the restaurant to use force to remove one of the men from the front of their establishment because of his persistence in continuing the dispute.

One eyewitness who told THE STAR that he was waiting on his brother who was inside the courthouse to answer to charges of travelling using forged documents said that, "Di whole a dem a hustla out yah dem fi just live as one, dem nuh know say a dog eat dog in the streets."