Jones, Witter being pressed to pay costs

Still to be paid court costs they were awarded after the High Court ruled in their favour dismissing the challenge to the passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill; Speaker of the National Assembly, its Clerk and the Parliament Office have threatened legal action.

Through attorney Sase Gunraj, they are pursuing Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones and trade unionist Norris Witter by whom the action had been filed; for the $750,000 collectively awarded to them.

Gunraj in a statement to the press said that since Justice Navindra Singh’s order of June 19th, 2023 that costs be paid, neither Jones nor Witter have complied.