In a renewed bid to secure the over US$2 million owed to it by government for road construction works, Trinidad engineering and construction company Dipcon, is challenging the presidential respite granted to Finance Minister Winston Jordan, who was liable to be held in criminal contempt for non-payment.
With its latest suit, which lists Attorney General Basil Williams and President David Granger as the respondents, the engineering company is seeking an order of certiorari quashing the Head of State’s decision to grant Jordan a respite from 21 days imprisonment.
Through its attorney, Timothy Jonas, Dipcon (the applicant), is arguing that the president’s decision is flawed and amounts to a nullity, while adding that it was, among other things, improper, unreasonable, arbitrary and in excess of jurisdiction.
