{"id":19679,"date":"2012-03-21T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2012-03-21T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:53:37","slug":"political-party-accused-of-trespassing-on-crown-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/political-party-accused-of-trespassing-on-crown-land","title":{"rendered":"Political Party Accused Of Trespassing On Crown Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19688\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19688\" title=\"pnp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pnp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pnp.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pnp-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Progressive National Party (PNP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, the Turks and Caicos Islands government served civil proceedings on the Progressive National Party (PNP) seeking the recovery of the land upon which the PNP headquarters building is constructed, together with damages, including an order to pull down and destroy the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The claim arises from the PNP&#8217;s alleged trespass following its construction of its headquarters on Airport Road, Providenciales, on Crown land to which, the government claims, it had, and has no title.<\/p>\n<p>According to a government press release on Tuesday, after construction of its headquarters in 2005\/6, the PNP subsequently appointed a management agent, Provident Management Services Ltd, to manage the property. During the last elected administration prior to the imposition of direct rule by Britain, Provident is said to have sub-leased six offices in the headquarters to PNP MPs for a total of $465,083.61 over approximately three years, which was paid by the government. The government seeks the return of that sum, to which Provident was not entitled together with other damages.<\/p>\n<p>The government said it is seeking a number of remedies for the alleged trespass:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 damages for the PNP&#8217;s trespass on the land, based on a reasonable annual rent until possession of the land is returned to the Crown;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 the repayment of the $465,083.61;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 an order that the headquarters are pulled down and destroyed;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 damages for returning the land to its former state; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 interest and costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turks and Caicos Islands government seeks to recover the land upon which the PNP headquarters building is constructed, together with damages, as the PNP is allegedly trespassing on Crown land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[151,40,114],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-court","tag-government","tag-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}