Gendarmes form a line as man holds a Guadeloupe nationalist flag in Vieux-Bourg…Gendarmes form a line as a man shouts while holding a Guadeloupe nationalist flag after protestors ransacked shops and torched cars in Guadeloupe overnight as a strike over the cost of living escalated on the French Caribbean island, in Petit-Bourg February 17, 2009. Tree trunks and smoking car wrecks were strewn across streets in the island’s largest town, Pointe-a-Pitre and in other areas including Sainte-Rose in the north after a night of clashes between police and demonstrators. REUTERS/Gilles Petit (GUADELOUPE)