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As many of you have probably heard by now the judges in the court of appeal in Nassau ruled yesterday in our appeal. Unfortunately the news is not good. The judges ruled that the decision in Freeport will stand. Each one of the three judges gave an hour long ruling that went through all of our grounds of appeal and basically they sided with the trail judge below. They all admitted there were some gray areas but they quoted lots of laws that say that the government has the right through its legislative authority to do all the things it did . All of them hinted that they maybe did not agree with how it was done or it could have been done differently but the government did what they were statutorily required to do by law so there was no grounds for appeal
Even though there are no environmental laws in the country they did consult with the BEST commission and according to law the judges cannot place another scientists view over the one provided by a government mandated organisation.
We still believe both of those statements to be a matter of linguistics and interpretation but that is a matter for the lawyers to work out. Our lawyer is reviewing the judgement and we are considering our next move. Fred came out of court smiling and the first words out of his mouth are we are headed to the Privy so we will see over the next couple of days what our next course of action will be .
Judge Joan sawyer gave a tear jerking speech about the environment and how we all need to protect it but as far as the environment is concerned her hands are pretty much tied. There are no laws to enforce and this is partly what we are complaining about.
I tried to get out in the press and hopefully they can pick this up is that
1 we need environmental laws
2 we need a freedom of information act so these deals do not happen in secret

IF ( and that is a big IF ) we were to stop today we have accomplished a lot . The entire country is a lot more aware of the environment. The new PM has conceded that the way the heads of agreement are written are too liberal and vague. People everywhere are questioning the mega development philosophy and I am sure DLC has been forced to do a lot of things that they never would have dreamed of doing if we were not jumping all over their backs BUT the fact remains and they still have not answered this question

HOW WILL A GOLF COURSE 25 YARDS AWAY FROM A LIVING CORAL REEF NOT RAISE NITROGEN LEVELS AND CAUSE ALGAE TO SMOTHER THE LIVING CORAL ?????

We will keep you posted on out next move . Thanks for all your support and starting putting your pennies together . If we are going to Privy council there will have to be some $$$$ raised