Westmorings Lands

[zoom rader]

I guess the good folk of Westmorings dont wants Wasa or maybe Afros in their area. I recalled some years ago they stopped schools from being built in that area. These good folk pulling the corporation strings.

The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has been dealt another blow in its ongoing legal battle with the Port-of-Spain City Corporation over a 23-acre parcel of land at Westmoorings. The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed WASA’s appeal over the decision of a High Court Judge in 2013 to award ownership of the site to the corporation. Appellate Judges Allan Mendonca, Rajendra Narine and Gregory Smith sat on the appeal panel.

The land, sometimes referred to as the Cocorite Farm, is located on the Western Main Road, Westmoorings, opposite The Falls, West Mall. The dispute arose in 2011 when the authority resumed water production at the site, which had been discontinued in the 1980s, while placing signs to re-establish the property boundaries. On September 14 that year, the corporation’s chief executive officer advised WASA that it should cease and desist all activities on the acreage since the property was under the corporation’s stewardship.

WASA maintained its position and the following day the corporation moved onto the site and tore down the signs. WASA workers were allegedly threatened with arrests for trespass, according to the documents presented in court. WASA however, claimed it was the corporation which was trespassing. In her judgment delivered in January 2013, Justice Carol Gobin ruled WASA had failed to present evidence to prove the land was vested to it.

Gobin said the property was in the continuous and undisturbed possession of the corporation since the 1980s and, as such, WASA’s activity on the lands was illegal. Shortly after Gobin’s judgment, former Port-of-Spain mayor Louis Lee Sing announced that the site would be transformed into a green space which would include benches, a children’s playground and a walking track.

Although the Appeal Court had refused WASA an injunction stopping development on the site until the appeal was determined, it has been left virtually untouched since. “Mayor of Port-of-Spain, Alderman Raymond Tim Kee, has expressed his satisfaction at the successful outcome of this matter,” a press release from the corporation said yesterday. WASA was represented by Senior Counsel Seenath Jairam, attorneys Larry Lalla and Nyree Alfonso, while John Jeremie, SC, and Kerwyn Garcia represented the city corporation

[pete]

AFAIK wasa just put up signs by a bunch of wells they had there.

[orangefox]

ZR look across the road/street from the Falls Mall ... Tell me what development you see and if they contribute to the development of Westmooring ?

You think ALL in Gov't stupid !

[zoom rader]

ZR look across the road/street from the Falls Mall ... Tell me what development you see and if they contribute to the development of Westmooring ?

You think ALL in Gov't stupid !

Has nothing todo with Govt.
The good westmoring folk juss doh want certain ppl in their space.
Same crap happend years ago when they stopped schools form being built.

[orangefox]

Ok .. Look at it from another angle

You strike me as a person who has travelled and lived abroad

Seen the World so to speak ... 99% of Tuners may not have lived and/or worked abroad.

The norm is "certain neighborhoods" develop and prosper due to a "certain" kind of people.

When established do you think they want a "certain ppl in their space " to lower standards ?

[meccalli]

They may be a minority, but there are many African persons in that community. My problem with that area and generally north west coast is the privatization of shoreline and access, we're an island and it should be publicly owned for all to enjoy and the idle to occupy themselves. Maybe then children in the areas would pick up lines and boards rather than guns. Just watch Tobago compared to us.

[zoom rader]

They may be a minority, but there are many African persons in that community. My problem with that area and generally north west coast is the privatization of shoreline and access, we're an island and it should be publicly owned for all to enjoy and the idle to occupy themselves. Maybe then children in the areas would pick up lines and boards rather than guns. Just watch Tobago compared to us.

That area from Westmorings (Water Hole is the original name) go back was once owned by Afros, even chaguaramas was all owned by Afros. Then came the war and the lands was taken away from them for the US . The afros ended up in Carenage. There was a long battle to get the lands back but it failed in the courts.
Eric Williams was supposed to give back the lands to the afros but it never happen.

But I suppose Rowley bigging up himself in Water Hole

[orangefox]

They may be a minority, but there are many African persons in that community. My problem with that area and generally north west coast is the privatization of shoreline and access, we're an island and it should be publicly owned for all to enjoy and the idle to occupy themselves. Maybe then children in the areas would pick up lines and boards rather than guns. Just watch Tobago compared to us.

That area from Westmorings (Water Hole is the original name) go back was once owned by Afros, even chaguaramas was all owned by Afros. Then came the war and the lands was taken away from them for the US . The afros ended up in Carenage. There was a long battle to get the lands back but it failed in the courts.
Eric Williams was supposed to give back the lands to the afros but it never happen.

But I suppose Rowley bigging up himself in Water Hole

And .. Why look at history with such dismay ? You want give back lands in USA to the American Indians ?

What is the problem ?

Rowley is educated , progressive , popular among indian girls and will be the next PM of TT

What seems to bother OP is that "certain people" do not have access to Westmooring lands.

Maybe you should elaborate on what you think the "owners" of this piece of real estate should do to develop it ?

[toyolink]

The question for me is;
What is really more important to the wider community ,is it a 'green space' or production of water?
Seems to be WASA and the City Council who both should be predisposed to the same objective here.
Then again politics cause many to do silly things.

[*$kїđž!™]

but nowhere in that article said it was the ppl of westmoorings vs WASA....

[zoom rader]

but nowhere in that article said it was the ppl of westmoorings vs WASA....

They pull the strings bro, just like they got the schools stopped but allowed their own tobe built.

[AutoSport]

but nowhere in that article said it was the ppl of westmoorings vs WASA....

Forget the bloody politics.
Let's get a revelation of how much lawyers fees have been expended thus far by both the Corporation and WASA.
Whose money? Who is is really winning this silly fight?
And if the Corporation wants it for green space and WASA for wells, why can they not BOTH achieve their respective goals and not be indulging in this Don Quixote fight?

[orangefox]

Lol ...

Even Don Quixote realized that he's nuts. But by that point, it's too late. He gets a terrible fever and dies in his bed. One of his only dying wishes is for everyone to know how stupid all those chivalry pursuits in his life turned out to be.

So the "fight" will continue.

Only in TT .

[eurotuner]

hehe dude say's that they may not want afro-trini's in their area.
Get out a little more bub

[orangefox]

hehe dude say's that they may not want afro-trini's in their area.
Get out a little more bub

Lol .. .. More Afro Trini there than people know .. and a good thing ..

Why ? It show how the rest lazy and have no ambition even when PNM give away
everything ( education, housing, food, and jobs ) free !

[Les Bain]

It thoughtful of them to threaten WASA folk with arrest though. Other people coming up to chop yuh mudder cnut.