Derek Achong

En­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh says he in­tends to be­gin an­oth­er hunger strike to stop con­struc­tion of the Debe to Mon De­sir seg­ment of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion.Speak­ing at un­der a small tent op­po­site the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter at Gray Street, St Clair, yes­ter­day, Kublals­ingh said he was ad­vised by his doc­tors of the risk of ir­repara­ble med­ical com­pli­ca­tions giv­en the im­pact of the 21-day hunger strike in @012 had on his body.

"I think this is an im­por­tant is­sue that is worth dy­ing for. I have no qualms about do­ing that."As he sat read­ing news­pa­pers in the make-shift curb­side of­fice which he has oc­cu­pied for the past six months, Kublals­ingh said his ac­tion was a last re­sort as the High­way Re-route Move­ment (HRM)'s pre­vi­ous at­tempts to con­vince gov­ern­ment to re­view their po­si­tion on the project had failed.

"I can not see any oth­er op­tion. What else the pub­lic ex­pects us to do we have done demon­stra­tions, a hunger strike, diplo­ma­cy, prayers and we have gone through the courts. The gov­ern­ment is not obey­ing a process."Kublals­ingh claimed the group de­cid­ed to in­ten­si­fy its ef­forts af­ter it learnt con­struc­tion on the Pe­nal in­ter­change be­gun last week. The group is ex­pect­ed to hold a press con­fer­ence, this morn­ing, at an­oth­er make-shift camp near the con­struc­tion site.

"We cant al­low that. Its in­tol­er­a­ble. If they com­plete that in­ter­change it means the high­way is fin­ished."Al­though he ac­knowl­edged the group had failed in its two at­tempts be­fore High Court and the Court of Ap­peal to ob­tain an in­ter­im in­junc­tion against the gov­ern­ment, Kublals­ingh seemed hope­ful of a favourable out­come in their fi­nal ap­peal in Lon­don, Eng­land.

"All the rul­ings so far, they con­tra­dict each oth­er on key is­sues. It is not that we are im­put­ing im­prop­er mo­tives but that is how the ju­di­cial sys­tem op­er­ates and that is why we have tak­en it to the Privy Coun­cil."