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WINNIFRED UPDATE ( 14 February 2008)
A Short update on what' happening
The court day went well The judge has asked UDC to speed up with their proposals to us and UDC promised to have a meeting with us.
Court case been adjourned on April 14 and the judge said he won't tolerate any more delays and he also stated that he will help us to bring the case to the Supreme Court. We have a lot of troubles instead because the Health Department has been alerted that the vendors are operating without water and without license So we had a meeting with their officers and there will be an inspection next Monday
We were trying to reconnect the water even if there is an awful pending bill left by UDC but we were told that UDC wrote a letter to the Water Commission in order not to allow us to get any water I wonder what we can do now
Plus the pending bill is S 76,400 which is more than 1.000 US.
We are a bit depressed but we don't give up our fight
Nuff love
WINNIFRED UPDATE ( 30 January 2008)
Dear Friends thanks to the all of you for the support we got from you It help us a lot to feel strong
As you Know we are going back to court on February 11 and we also have decided to become a registered association in order to guarantee to WInnifred and to its community a better level of organization and a more efficient way to work and involve citizens and groups
The following letter is our proposal to UDC concerning the way we have in mind to control and to improve Winnifred beach
Hope you will tell us what you think about and in the meantime I need to mention the excellent work which has been volunteered by our lawyers
One love
WINNIFRED UPDATE ( 24 October 2007)
Dear Friends
to the all of you support WInnifred Beach, first of all a big thanks for your help and for all the strength we got from you and from your messages. c We got plenty from all over the world so we do not fee lonely in such a struggle
But probably most of you are looking for some updates.
Winnifred case went to Buff Bay Courthouse in July and the case has been set for trial on November 19 in the same Courthouse.
Also Nepa has filed its statement to the Court .
We solictated NEPA for more than a year but until we decided to do without their help we did not get any support Now, something must have happened to convince them to follow us, but honestly we prefer to be in court by ourselves to avoid any further delay.
The issue presented is court mention prescriptive rights,which means that, according of the National Beache Act, if a beach has been public for 20 years without any interruption, the same beach cannot be made private.
In the meantime we are still looking at the way how the beach has been sold and we hope to have some more reasons to counteract UDC.
We also wrote a petition to the new Prime Minister, Mr Golding, hoping to get some attention and we have included the petition with all your signatures.
In the meantime we try to keep the beach going at our best Luckily we got very small damages by hurricane Dean and so the beach looks lovely same as before
Actually we are trying to improve the road to the beach and the water system so that visitors can use bathroom facilities and even have a shower.
We, the Winnifred people, thanks again one more time all the friends we have found in this adventure and we will let you know what will be the result of the November trial.
One love
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