Residents on concrete batching plant manufacturers
RESIDENTS of Cunupia are calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to intervene and permanently stop the operations of a concrete batching plant manufacturers.
On Monday, the Concerned Residents of Cunupia (CROC) issued a release “demanding a position statement from the Prime Minister and his Cabinet on this matter”.
Justice Mira Dean-Armorer ordered the closure of the mini batching plant indonesia facility at Chin Chin Road, Cunupia after ruling that the decision of former planning and sustainable development minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie to permit the development and operation of the plant was illegal.
The fully automated and electronic plant occupies 26 acres of land and is valued at approximately $20 million.
It is owned by Mootilal Ramhit and Sons Contractors Ltd (MRSCL).
But even though the judge ordered that the plant had to close, it will remain in operation for at least 90 days given that Dean-Armorer granted a three-month stay on the execution of the order.
Attorneys for the State have also indicated their intention to appeal the ruling.
CROC stated: “We are calling on the Prime Minister...Dr Keith Rowley to investigate whether his Attorney General...Faris Al-Rawi and his Planning Minister...Camille Robinson-Regis will allow taxpayers’ precious dollars to be expended on appealing a matter than involved an erroneous decision by a former UNC minister.”
CROC continued: “The bottom line is that a commercial concrete mixing plant and industrial operations have no place in an area zoned for residential use,” the residents stated.
In May 2012, former works minister Jack Warner, Member of Parliament for Caroni East Dr Tim Gopeesingh and former Chaguanas mayor Orlando Nagessar toured the facility and expressed support for it.
Warner had said the plant was one of the best he had seen, “that it is a plant we can eat off the floor” and there was no reason for residents to protest.
Tewarie told the Express yesterday he did not wish to comment on the court order.
He said: “Under my tenure, whatever was done was done. The court has ruled, it is up to the ministry to deal with that now. I was a minister, I did the best I can and it is up to them the run the country now.”
Chaguanas Mayor Gopaul Boodhan told the Express he would be liaising with the technical and legal departments of the Chaguanas Borough Corporation to be better advised on the matter.
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