Rise Up Sweet Island


Great Guana Cay is a thin, six mile island in the Northern Bahamas.

The island's inhabitants, who settled here 200 years ago, are employed in fishing and cottage industry tourism.

The island's coral reef is of international importance as one of the most intact surviving elkhorn/staghorn coral communities in the world.

The inhabitants began fighting tooth and nail to save their island's coral reef and mangroves from destruction after hearing of plans for a golf megadevelopment on their tiny barrier reef island.

Hundreds of the world's most revered coral reef scientists and marine ecologists, as well as almost every single Bahamian environmental organization, have banded together to try to stop the Baker's Bay Golf & Ocean Club (Discovery Land Company) from realizing completion.

The proposed 585 unit, 180 slip marina, tennis courts, hotel, destination spa and championship golf course were pushed through the Bahamian central government with no local consent and without proper permits in a land grab (including of local public land designated for use by Bahamians) of unbelievable proportion. In one of the most amazing and unique environmental stories in history, the islanders have brought the developer, and the Bahamian government, to task. The small island is now waging a bitter legal battle with the government and the developers.

Rise Up Sweet Island compiles the viewpoints of the Bahamian and international marine conservation community and presents documents, evidence and history for all interested parties.

Notes from the Road is a travelogue which covers environmental and cultural issues around North America, the Caribbean and Europe.

Thousands of coral scientists, conservationists and environmentalists have publicly voiced support for the locals of Great Guana Cay, including scientists at the Sierra Club, University of Miami, Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity, Global Coral Reef Alliance and more.
No independent scientists or conservation groups support the position of Baker's Bay Club.
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Application for Order of Commital

COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS                         2005/PUB/jrv/FP/5
                  
IN THE SUPREME COURT  

Public Law Division     
                                                         
In the Matter of an application for Judicial Review

B E T W E E N: 

THE QUEEN

and

WENDELL MAJOR
As Secretary to the National Economic Council

The First Respondent

- and -

THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CROWN LANDS
In the person of the Honourable Mr Perry Gladstone Christie
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
The Second Respondent
- and -

THE TREASURER OF THE BAHAMAS
The Third Respondent
-and-

PASSERINE AT ABACO LIMITED
The Fourth Respondent
-and-

PASSERINE AT ABACO HOLDINGS LIMITED
The Fifth Respondent
-and-

BAKERS BAY LIMITED
The Sixth Respondent
-and-

BAKERS BAY HOA LIMITED
The Seventh Respondent
-and-

BAKERS BAY MARINA LIMITED
The Eighth Respondent
-and-

BAKERS BAY FOUNDATION LIMITED
The Ninth Respondent

Ex parte

SAVE GUANA CAY REEF ASSOCIATION LTD.
The First Applicant
- and -
AUBREY CLARKE
The Second Applicant
 



ExParte Summons pursuant to R.S.C 1978 ORD 52
 

We wish to have the application dealt with by the Supreme Court.

This application is made Ex parte with notice to the Respondents.

Part A

We Attorneys for the First and Second Applicants intend to apply for an order, a draft of which is attached, that:

  1. The Applicants be  and are hereby granted leave to apply for an order that the Officers and Directors of Fourth through Ninth Respondents listed in the Statement hereto be committed to Her Majesty's Prison at Fox Hill  for their contempt of this Court in breaching their voluntary undertaking given to the this Court on the 22nd of November 2005;

 

  1. And that the Fourth through Ninth Respondents pay to the Applicants the costs of these proceedings, because the various breaches of the undertaking created a substantial risk that the course of justice in proceedings at the Supreme Court will be seriously impeded or prejudiced.

Part B

We wish to rely on the Statement attached and the Affidavit in Support of the application for leave to apply for an order of committal.

Dated 8th March, 2006

 

Callenders & Co.
Counsel and Attorneys-at-Law
Suite C, Regent Centre East
The Mall Drive
Freeport, Grand Bahama
The Bahamas

Attorneys for the Applicant

 

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