AG: Govt will be ‘properly represented’ on Pigeon Point issue

Attorney General Glenda Morean-Phillip yesterday assured that Government will be “properly represented” in the legal battle for the Pigeon Point estate in Tobago. Advising that very little ought to be said about the issue, now before the court, the AG gave this assurance during a hastily convened media briefing following her meeting yesterday afternoon with Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Orville London, at his offices in Scarborough. Owners of the popular beachfront property, Robinson Crusoe Limited — a subsidiary of the Ansa McAl Group — recently filed a constitutional motion challenging the move by the THA to compulsorily acquire Pigeon Point for “public purposes.”

The AG told journalists: “I don’t know if I am qualified to say too much on Pigeon Point but what I do know is that there is a matter before the court and it is being dealt with in a certain way.  What I really mean is that the State will be properly represented in the matter”. Morean-Phillip added that from the history of the longstanding impasse between the THA and the property owners over public access to the area, “it would appear that we have tried all sorts of mediation; we have tried discussion; we have tried all means, and it seems that we have reached the point now where there is really only one course that can be adopted. And this is as much as I can say on that,” the AG asserted.