The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday denied that it was a party or privy to any court action involving the popular ‘Dread Shop,’ which its workers demolished on Thursday morning.
A statement issued by the M&CC, and signed by Town Clerk Royston King, said that the council was never restrained by any order from the court with regard to the illegally erected structure in the Stabroek Market area.
Attorney Nigel Hughes, who is representing ‘Dread Shop’ owner Anthony Ford, had told the media that a matter between his client and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure was currently in the Appeal Court. In 2011, the then Ministry of Public Works had taken Ford to court in