This house modified into the finest one left standing after Authorities ordered the demolition of structures being built illegally on lands owned by the Disclose in Clifton, St Catherine.

OPPOSITION Leader Tag Golding says his legal professionals are making ready a claim to be filed in the Supreme Court for compensation for folks whose unfinished properties on Authorities property in Clifton, shut to Bernard Resort in St Catherine, were demolished closing October.

On Thursday, October 6, illegally constructed properties in the Clifton space were demolished below orders from Prime Minister Andrew Holness, an act, which Golding mentioned “can most effective be described as a most cruel and inhumane act by brokers of the Disclose”.

Holness had told Parliament a day before the demolition that structures illegally erected on lands adjoining the Clifton neighborhood had been captured by criminal gangs.

The lands, that are in the Elevated Bernard Resort Pattern Situation, had been designated for agricultural functions.

The high minister mentioned that the illegal settlers had been increasing their very catch casual subdivision and promoting these lands below the spurious pretence of ownership or constructing on them.

It modified into published in subsequent media reports that other folks had unsuspectingly purchased property in the distance from unscrupulous other folks.

Golding, in his contribution to the 2023/24 Value range Debate in Parliament on Tuesday, principal that the Opposition has needed to be vigilant in standing up for the other folks and defending their constitutional rights.

“We hold now assisted 65 households who hold been residing for loads of a long time in the rural neighborhood of Windfall, shut to Lluidas Vale in St Catherine, on lands which were purchased for them by the Michael Manley Authorities in the Seventies,” he mentioned.

Golding principal that closing October they were, “unceremoniously and without prior dialogue”, served notices by the Authorities to vacate their homes. He mentioned that the Opposition has been aiding these households to provide protection to their rights to are residing in the homes they’ve built there over many years.

“When our legal professionals were no longer equipped with obvious and company assurances that were requested of the Authorities, an action modified into filed on their behalf in the Supreme Court. I’m happy to instruct that I hold been educated that an intervening time injunction has been granted by the Supreme Court to prevent any action being taken in opposition to them till the topic has been at closing decided by the courtroom,” he mentioned.

He pressured that the Opposition will continue to be vigilant when it involves the “hard-received rights of the other folks”, pointing out that it’s no longer in settlement with the Authorities “in its repeated and ongoing exercise of states of emergency (SOEs) as a routine policing instrument in areas the set aside there is a flare-up of violence”.