{"id":37077,"date":"2013-07-02T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37077"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:20:27","slug":"judicial-review-looms-for-blackbeards-cay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/judicial-review-looms-for-blackbeards-cay","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Review Looms For Blackbeard&#8217;s Cay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37079\" title=\"blackbeards-cay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/blackbeards-cay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/blackbeards-cay.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/blackbeards-cay-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Environmentalists have warned that a Judicial Review challenge to the $5 million Blackbeard\u2019s Cay project is \u201cnot off the table\u201d, with the Government seemingly hesitating in giving the developers their Business Licence.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Duncombe, director of reearth, accused the Government of breaching its own laws with respect to Blackbeard\u2019s Cay by failing to follow the processes for granting approvals laid out in the Planning and Subdivisions Act 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Duncombe, whose organisation has become increasingly strident in its opposition to the project, told Tribune Business the Government was \u201cstonewalling\u201d and \u201cputting us on the backburner\u201d by refusing to respond to reearth\u2019s requests for information on the permits\/approvals granted to Blackbeard\u2019s Cay.<\/p>\n<p>Describing this as \u201ctotally unacceptable in a democratic society\u201d, she added that the Government only became transparent over major development projects when \u201cpeople are screaming for it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Judicial Review challenge to the $5 million Blackbeard\u2019s Cay development is \u201cnot off the table\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[12],"tags":[93,118,76],"class_list":["post-37077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-development","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37077","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}