The Tribune

By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

A COURT of Appeal hearing on whether an injunction on dredging activities in North Bimini should have been discharged has been adjourned to tomorrow.

Fred Smith, attorney for the environmental group Bimini Blue Coalition (BBC), filed for an appeal on Friday after Grand Bahama Supreme Court Senior Justice Hartman Longley discharged the Privy Council’s injunction on dredging activities on that day.

Court of Appeal president Anita Allen and attorneys for the government said yesterday that they did not have enough time to read Mr Smith’s submissions before the hearing, prompting the Court to implement an adjournment.

The Privy Council had granted the BBC’s injunction request nearly two weeks ago, but gave the developer the freedom to prove before either the Supreme Court or the Court of a Appeal that a permit it recently obtained under the Conservation of the Physical Landscape of the Bahamas Act was valid.