And while BEL and Fortis should benefit from a generous increase in cash flow from that re-classification, it still has no one to blame or charge for the sabotage in April that cost it millions of dollars.
When the sabotage occurred, we reported that two UDP activists in the Orange Walk area were detained but never charged. Last week in the Supreme Court, Lucio Eloy Navarro the udp coordinator for the Corozal District and Pedro Gil Guerra, a UDP activist, were vindicated when government conceded that they had been constitutionally wronged during their detention.
They were originally detained in Corozal and then spirited out of town, and kept at various locations for a chaotic 24 hours of interrogation. During this time they were denied access to their attorney which is a constitutional right.
Party leader Dean Barrow presented their case to the Chief Justice. Government agreed to pay damages of $5,000 each and costs of $2,500.
No one has ever been charged for any of the 17 recorded acts of sabotage, which costs BEL 20 lamp-posts and over a million dollars in damages.