DLP lawsuit ends

lawsuit challenging the suspension of DLP President Dr Ronnie Yearwood and General Secretary Steve Blackett was on Tuesday withdrawn when the disputing parties returned to the High Court.

The lawsuit was brought by veteran DLP member Ricky Williams back in May.

Williams’ attorney-at-law Shamar Bovell told reporters this morning, “The matter was withdrawn from the attention of the court, so going forward there will be no applications filed before the court within that particular matter. We would look to deal with the matter in another way.”

Meanwhile, Attorney-at-law Neil Marshall who represented the DLP’s interim President Andre Worrell suggested the matter would now be resolved internally.  “There are no winners or losers in this entire episode and if there are any winners, the winners we expect will be the people of Barbados who can now resign themselves to the party itself addressing and dealing with the issues that they are expected to deal with as a mature political party,” he told reporters.