Environmentalists have warned that a Judicial Review challenge to the $5 million Blackbeard’s Cay project is “not off the table”, with the Government seemingly hesitating in giving the developers their Business Licence.
Sam Duncombe, director of reearth, accused the Government of breaching its own laws with respect to Blackbeard’s Cay by failing to follow the processes for granting approvals laid out in the Planning and Subdivisions Act 2010.
Ms Duncombe, whose organisation has become increasingly strident in its opposition to the project, told Tribune Business the Government was “stonewalling” and “putting us on the backburner” by refusing to respond to reearth’s requests for information on the permits/approvals granted to Blackbeard’s Cay.
Describing this as “totally unacceptable in a democratic society”, she added that the Government only became transparent over major development projects when “people are screaming for it”.
