Residents' claims that they faced "irreparable harm" if two bauxite companies were allowed to mine parts of St Ann and Trelawny "are more speculative than based on proof", according to the Court of Appeal, which lifted an.
GOVERNMENT senator and president general of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union Kavan Gayle is warning that restraining bauxite mining in St Ann and Trelawny, under the Special Mining Lease (SML.
CONCERNS are rising in the local bauxite/alumina industry over the effect of the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, in favour of environmentalists and residents opposing mining in the Cockpit Cou.
The Supreme Court has barred Noranda Jamaica Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited from mining lands in St Ann's Cockpit Country, which some residents say is threatening their surviva.