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Monday, August 11, 2025

Another snag for Highway Re-route Movement

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The High­way Re-route Move­ment's (HRM's) bid for an ur­gent in­junc­tion to stop con­struc­tion works on the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion hit an­oth­er snag yes­ter­day.High Court judge James Aboud, who is pre­sid­ing over the group's law­suit, was ex­pect­ed to hear sub­mis­sions on the ap­pli­ca­tion yes­ter­day.How­ev­er, when the case was called State at­tor­neys said they had ap­plied to the Ap­peal Court for a stay of the pro­ceed­ings be­fore him.

The State's pro­posed ap­pli­ca­tion for the stay, if suc­cess­ful, will ex­pire af­ter the Ap­peal Court de­ter­mines the State's ap­peal of Aboud's de­ci­sion last month not to re­cuse him­self from the case.The ap­peal and the stay ap­pli­ca­tion are ex­pect­ed to be heard on Mon­day.Aboud said he felt the hear­ing should be ad­journed be­cause if the Ap­peal Court ruled he should re­cuse him­self, the time spent hear­ing sub­mis­sions would have been wast­ed.

"I doubt that be­tween now and Mon­day there would be any ac­tiv­i­ty that would se­vere­ly prej­u­dice the claimants (the HRM)," Aboud said, be­fore he ad­journed the mat­ter to next Tues­day.The group sought the ur­gent in­junc­tion last week, when the State was due to re­spond to a sim­i­lar ap­pli­ca­tion for an in­junc­tion filed al­most four months ago.

The group's lead at­tor­ney, Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj, SC, had said his clients could not wait for the first ap­pli­ca­tion to be de­ter­mined, as the State had ramped up con­struc­tion at the site since the be­gin­ning of this month, and the project might reach an ad­vanced stage while the ini­tial ap­pli­ca­tion was be­ing de­ter­mined. Rus­sell Mar­tineau, SC, who is head­ing the State's le­gal team, ob­ject­ed to the ap­pli­ca­tion while ques­tion­ing the tim­ing of the HRM, as he said work at the site had been go­ing on since the group filed the law­suit in 2012.

"Not one of these claimants can say they need this be­cause their house is be­ing threat­ened by de­mo­li­tion," Mar­tineau said.


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