Rhon­dor Dowlat

The Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) has suc­cess­ful­ly en­forced a court rul­ing, re­gain­ing con­trol of the pavil­ion at Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah, Tacarigua, af­ter a pro­longed le­gal bat­tle.

The cor­po­ra­tion took ac­tion fol­low­ing more than a year of ex­ten­sions grant­ed to the pre­vi­ous oc­cu­pant to va­cate the premis­es.

The le­gal vic­to­ry stems from a rul­ing de­liv­ered on May 2, 2023, by Jus­tice Ava­son Quin­lan-Williams, which di­rect­ed the re­moval of chains, locks and oth­er bar­ri­ers that had been placed at the pavil­ion en­trance. These ob­sta­cles were pre­vent­ing pub­lic ac­cess and cru­cial im­prove­ments to the fa­cil­i­ty.

In the court rul­ing (Jer­ry Richards CV2023-01187), the judge man­dat­ed that the pavil­ion be va­cat­ed, al­low­ing the cor­po­ra­tion to move for­ward with its re­de­vel­op­ment plans.

Af­ter pro­vid­ing am­ple time for the oc­cu­pant to va­cate vol­un­tar­i­ly, the cor­po­ra­tion act­ed in com­pli­ance with the court’s di­rec­tive.

The TPRC, in a re­lease is­sued on Mon­day, em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of the pavil­ion as a key part of the re­gion’s recre­ation­al in­fra­struc­ture.

“This ac­tion en­sures that the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah is de­vel­oped in­to a pre­mier, mul­ti-use fa­cil­i­ty that will serve the en­tire re­gion,” the re­lease not­ed.

The planned up­grades are part of the cor­po­ra­tion’s long-term vi­sion to trans­form the sa­van­nah in­to a hub for recre­ation, sports, eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty, and cul­tur­al events.

In de­scrib­ing the cor­po­ra­tion’s plans, the re­lease stat­ed: “The Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion is com­mit­ted to trans­form­ing the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah in­to the re­gion’s fore­most mixed-use space.”

The re­de­vel­op­ment will in­clude mod­ern in­fra­struc­ture im­prove­ments de­signed to en­hance the fa­cil­i­ty’s func­tion­al­i­ty and make it more ac­ces­si­ble to the com­mu­ni­ty.

“We are tak­ing the nec­es­sary steps to en­sure that the fa­cil­i­ty is safe, ac­ces­si­ble, and able to meet the evolv­ing needs of res­i­dents and vis­i­tors,” the TPRC em­pha­sised, un­der­lin­ing their ded­i­ca­tion to com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment.