Still seeking to secure the over US$2 million owed to it by government for road construction works, Trinidad engineering and construction company Dipcon has filed an application to strike out an appeal by the state against the 2018 order that compelled it to pay.
Dipcon, through its attorney, Timothy Jonas, is arguing that the state, through its Attorney General Basil Williams, has filed that appeal to the wrong court, the Guyana Court of Appeal, instead of the Full Court.
Dipcon, which was awarded judgment to the tune of US$2,228,400 since 2015, is contending that the order, which was granted by Chief Justice Roxane George, was interlocutory in nature, having been made from like applications after a final order had been made. As a result, it is of the view that any appeal from such interlocutory orders would have to be determined by the Full Court and that the Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction to hear such an application.
