Case Challenging BIA Set for November 4th
Justice Jan Drysdale will review the trial for the development of the Barbuda International Airport on November 4th, 2024.
Earlier this year, the London-based Privy Council, Antigua and Barbuda’s final court, granted two Barbudans, John Mussington and Jacklyn Frank, the opportunity to challenge the Development Control Authority (DCA), the Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority, and the Attorney General in court.
This decision follows a series of legal challenges and injunctions that delayed the case.
The duo will ask the local court to review the DCA’s actions and issue an order.
The Barbudans will be represented by King’s Counsel Leslie Thomas via Zoom, who is from the Garden Courts Chambers in the UK and represented Mussington and Frank at the Privy Council.
Mussington and Frank claim that with support from other government bodies, the DCA violated legal protocols when it approved the construction of an international runway on Barbuda, funded by the government’s development partner, Peace Love and Happiness (PLH).
Despite the government lawyers’ arguments that the case was no longer relevant because the airstrip and terminal had already been completed, the Privy Council ruled that the legal challenge was still valid.
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Comments (3)
Faithful national #1 October 10, 2024, 7:28 AM
BACKWARDNESS forever
POVERTY as a weapon of control
MAYHEM a daily dietary staple
Lisa October 10, 2024, 9:03 AM
The sand mining in Barbuda destroyed that island . Do we wish to destroy it further ? Have we not learned anything from the passage of Hurricane Irma?
Leave Mother Nature alone!
The Environmental Act is there for a reason and it should be followed.
AAB October 10, 2024, 11:19 AM
And NOW Our Black Leaders have COLLUDED With the White (if you can see this colour in the skin of Our Enslavers Descendants) Stealers to HUFF out Land and GIVE it to them ……
However ….. GOD IS IN CONTROL…..