Af­ter 21 days, Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh's hunger strike over the dis­put­ed Debe to Mon De­sir ex­ten­sion of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way to Point Fortin end­ed at 6.30 pm Wednes­day evening.

Kublals­ingh's de­ci­sion came af­ter the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try (JCC) and oth­er civ­il so­ci­ety groups re­leased the terms of ref­er­ence for the in­de­pen­dent re­view com­mit­tee to ex­am­ine the sev­er­al mat­ters of con­cern re­gard­ing the con­struc­tion of the high­way.

Kublals­ingh's ac­tivist or­gan­i­sa­tion, the HIgh­way Re-route Move­ment, ac­cept­ed the terms of ref­er­ence.

"I would like to thank the pub­lic for sup­port­ing the move­ment," Kublals­ingh said in a brief in­ter­view with CNC3 Tele­vi­sion just af­ter 7 pm Wednes­day evening.

He em­barked on the hunger strike three weeks ago, on No­vem­ber 15th.

The press re­lease said the JCC and oth­er civ­il so­ci­ety groups were "invit­ing Dr Kublals­ingh to stop his protest ac­tion now, so that we can have his sub­mis­sions and ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in this im­por­tant mat­ter".

The re­lease con­firmed the groups have ap­point­ed in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tor Dr James Arm­strong to chair the in­de­pen­dent work­ing group.

"The JCC and its kin­dred as­so­ci­a­tions are now com­mit­ted to this process for in­de­pen­dent, civ­il so­ci­ety over­sight of this large-scale de­vel­op­ment in our coun­try," the re­lease said.

Be­low are the terms of ref­er­ence in­clud­ed in the re­lease.

TERMS OF REF­ER­ENCE

Re­view all the doc­u­men­ta­tion pro­vid­ed by NID­CO, HRM and oth­er in­ter­est­ed par­ties

In­vite writ­ten and oral sub­mis­sions from in­ter­est­ed par­ties

As­cer­tain trans­paren­cy and com­pli­ance with pre­vail­ing statu­to­ry re­quire­ments

Ex­am­ine the process of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion and pub­lic in­for­ma­tion

Ex­am­ine the TOR is­sued by the EMA for an En­vi­ron­men­tal Im­pact As­sess­ment, along with any oth­er rel­e­vant doc­u­men­ta­tion, in or­der to as­cer­tain im­pli­ca­tions for so­cial, eco­nom­ic and en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pacts of the high­way de­vel­op­ment, in­clud­ing con­sid­er­a­tion of land tenure, land ac­qui­si­tion and costs, land use and dis­place­ment of fam­i­lies and at­ten­dant set­tle­ment de­vel­op­ment. This com­po­nent of the re­view will con­sid­er cost-ben­e­fit analy­sis; so­cial im­pact as­sess­ment; ter­res­tri­al and ma­rine ecol­o­gy, hy­drol­o­gy, drainage and pub­lic util­i­ties.

Ex­am­ine the route se­lec­tion process in­clud­ing the con­sid­er­a­tion of al­ter­na­tives and the choice cri­te­ria

Make rec­om­men­da­tions for Best Prac­tice.

Un­der­take any re­lat­ed tasks which will en­hance the con­tent of the Re­port