You'll note that we said "first injunction" because - faster than you can say "tireless attention seeker", Matura Shepherd has filed another. This one seeks to compel the Sugar Industry Control Board - the SICB - to do what the law says it can: declare an open date for the crop season. She explained today:...
Audrey Matura-Shepherd
"Well today as Mr. Lucilo Teck had promised, he filed a mandamus at the supreme court and its a mandamus in which we are asking the court.... the application really is a leave to file a mandamus, because you have to get leave first. So, it's an application which we are asking the court to give us leave so that we can bring an order of mandamus against the sugar industry control board who really by law should have set the date for the crop a long time ago. So what we are saying is lets go to court, let's ask the court to give us permission to bring this matter before the court so that we can get the date set for crop once and for all, because lawfully, they should have done this a long time ago. We believe that with the mandamus a lot of things will be cleared up. Hopefully, you never know, the board will see the wisdom in them carrying out their function and will proceed and set the date and then we will withdraw the matter before the court, but until then because the farmers are being forced into an agreement that is really not in their favor. We need to show the farmers that it's not true that they were told that they don't sign, there is no crop."
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