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‘Fine JADA for breaking up Dover folk night-rest’

by Randy Bennett
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For blatantly disobeying a court order, attorney-at-law Lalu Hanuman charged on Monday, JADA Construction’s bosses should be made to pay a $100,000 rather than face jail time over construction work that Dover residents claim has broken up their night’s rest.

In an apparent change of heart, Hanuman said in a statement that he would rather the directors of the construction company be made to pay the fine than being imprisoned, in the latest development in an over year-long battle with the construction firm.

Dover folk had charged that JADA, which is responsible for two nearby sites – Sandals on Dover Beach and Oceans Two in St Lawrence Gap – worked late into the night every day and even on bank holidays, causing them sleepless nights.

Last November 4, Justice Shona Griffith ordered JADA to limit their work on the two sites to between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. from Monday to Saturday.

No work was to be conducted on Sundays or bank holidays.

But despite the ruling, JADA continued to work around the clock and had breached the orders of the court on more than 40 occasions, Hanuman claimed.

As a result, he said JADA had to held accountable for their actions.

Hanuman suggested a $100,000 fine could be split between five charities; the African Heritage Foundation, the Israel Lovell Foundation, the Barbados Marine Trust, the Ark Animal Welfare Society and the Caribbean Vegetarian-Vegan Community.

But the decision to impose any penalty rests with Justice Shona Griffith when the case comes before her next Monday.

Hanuman told Barbados TODAY: “I’ve never really wanted to send anybody to prison but they have been blatantly disrespectful to the court with works going on past the hour of 6 p.m. and going on till in some instances until 9:30 p.m. and quite often starting before 8 a.m. so they were blatantly breaching the court order so I had no choice but to apply to the court for a committal proceeding to take place.

“But I don’t really want anybody to go to prison. They’ve breached their undertaking to the court and therefore clearly they must suffer some consequences and I’m saying that consequence could be a fine and given their repeated breaches of the order; there are something like 40 known breaches of the order to date, they deserve some sort of sanction. I’m willing to negotiate with them to let them pay a fine.”

Hanuman is also asking JADA to pay $1,500 in legal costs as well as “out-of-pocket expenses as set out in my last two affidavits”.
(randybennett@barbadostoday.bb)

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