TTASA loses Wallerfield, files injunction

NarendZORCE · Last edited by NarendZORCE on Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:22 am; edited 8 times in total

Message relayed from Jameer Ali...

The judges ruled against the appeal TTASA made.
TTASA now have 10 days in which to file another injunction locally or internationally with the Privy Council both of which will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (really).

If no injunction is filed within 10 days then all motorposrt structures at Wallerfield will be demolished.

If an injunction is filed at a very high cost then we will continue with the permission letters to eTeck every month to use the facility until actual development of the inductrial part and UTT at wallerfield begins.

TTASA has to pay eTeck for its legal costs AND for damages due to lost development time etc etc!!!

TTASA is having an emergency meeting at the Jean Pierre Complex AV room on Wednesday 13th December at 7pm sharp. They are asking ALL interested in motorsport to attend.

all the media will be at this meeting - CNC3, TV6, CNMG, IETV, Gayelle and Spalk, The Guardian and The Express newspapers, TriniTuner.com and Zorce Magazine.

The general feeling is that not many people like motorsport in T&T. Please come to the meeting and show HOW MANY supporters and competitors there really are.

A quiet protest with all motorsport cars and supporters is also being planned at a later date.

Alot of the competitors have spent hundreds of thousands and even millions of their hard earned money on their cars to enjoy the sport and represent T&T internationally, and now all that investment has been wasted, we must show our support against the eviction of motor racing from Wallerfield.

Think of the millions spent by motorsport bodies to develop the racing tracks at wallerfield over the years, the pit areas, the staging area, the launch pad, the circuit track, the walls, the infrastructure - all gone to waste now - to be demolished.

Rally Barbados generates 3-4million bajan dollars in the two weeks of the event in tourism dollars alone in hotels, restaurants, car rentals etc etc.

We understand that progress is needed and development of wallerfield is vital to the industrial and technological advancement of T&T. Automotive people are very techincally and technologically minded people, WE appreciate this more than most.

However we cannot just be put out in the cold with no alternatives. This is a sport, not a drink up and fete (or perhaps that is the problem). Motorsport is an internationally contested sport and one of the largest spectator sports in the world. T&T has the ability to create world champions as we see with Ryan Garcia, Gerrard Carrington, Daniel Ramoutarsingh and Sheldon Bissessar - born and bred locals, all of whom race under the T&T flag internationally. Yet eviction with no alternative is our fate, no place for the current generation to practice and compete, NOT ONE PLACE.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

Those who can't make it remember that we will be online for the record breaker from 9pm-till (to allow those attending to still be a part of the recordbreaker) so you can post your views on this at that time.
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Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

I be here...But i am wondering whats TTASA next move?

NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

Even if they appeal (again) where does this action lead? Do we get some (expensive) time to come back to this position once more?
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

Many of us are going to the meeting so we will bring back what details we can.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161066396

Privy Council may decide fate of Wallerfield racing
Darren Bahaw [email protected]

Wednesday, December 13th 2006

THE last hope of keeping motor racing at Wallerfield, a venue which has been used for more than four decades and is earmarked for the headquarters of the University of Trinidad and Tobago, may now rest with the Privy Council in London.

This after the Trinidad and Tobago Automobile Sports Association failed to convince the local courts to allow them to challenge an eviction notice served on them by a development company which has the mandate to establish the university and a science and technology park.

Members of the association will be meeting in an emergency session tonight at the National Stadium, Port of Spain to discuss their next move and have been given an undertaking that the 150-acre parcel of land which they now occupy will not be repossessed before December 28.

"We don't feel good about the ruling at all," vice president of the Association, Rawlins Amar, said.

"We have to fight it," he added, noting that the Association had two weeks to file an injunction to stop the State from seizing the property.

Amar said if the home of motor racing was taken away then drag racing will return to open roads.

The Ministry of Sports had been in negotiations with the Association, ever since they were served with an eviction notice on September 30, 2005 to find a new home for motor racing but no alternative site had been identified.

Amar said the Association members were fed up of empty promises.

On May 18, High Court judge Humphrey Stollmeyer, said that while he accepted that the decision to retake the Wallerfield racing circuit affected a section of the public, it did not affect the public generally, nor did it affect those outside the motor racing fraternity.

He ruled that the Association's lawsuit, which was filed as a challenge of a decision of a public authority, should have been filed as a private law matter.

He stated that while the State agency, which has controlling interest in the university project, had made some efforts to discuss the possible relocation of the motor racing home, he viewed with dismay the agencies' disinclination to resolve the matter and throw it into the hands of the Ministry of Sports.

The Appeal Court, comprising Justices of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo, Ivor Archie and Allan Mendonca, yesterday agreed with Stollmeyer, and ordered the Association to bear the legal costs incurred by the State agency in defending the appeal.

The Wallerfield area, comprising more than 416 hectares, has been earmarked by Government to be the headquarters of the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the home to a new science and technology park.

It was leased to the State development agency on December 1, 2003 for 199 years at an annual rent of $1,100.

On September 6, 2005, TTASA was served notice that its licence or permission to use to 150-acre area of Wallerfield known as the Southern Runway, had been revoked with immediate effect and the Association had until September 30, 2005, to remove its structures.

The motor racing organisation claimed that the Southern Runway had been used for more than 40 years for drag racing and circuit racing and millions of dollars had been spent to install and maintain a half-mile drag strip, a one-mile racing circuit, curb walls, bleachers, control towers and car park facilities.

Attorneys Ian Benjamin, Kerwyn Garcia and Marcelle Ferdinand represented the State agency

while Prakash Deonarine represented the Association.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

It is a fine line walked suing the eteck and begging gov't for land at the same time. I admire the spirit of those who are trying. To me the focus should be placed on a new facility� built to impress the world and really make motorsport a tourism money-maker.

The Flying Fish squabble already set us back out of the North Atlantic Oil, so some diversification can help. Yuh want to relax? We have beaches, hotels and botanical gardens. Yuh want excitement we have a Motor Racing Park, Zen, 51 and plenty activities...

Our islands can be made so great.

Whatever courses of action we take to introduce temporary motorsport activities, should be organised with the fullest co-operation of the authorities. If we show them our organisational skills and our passion in a positive manner the potential will truly be obvious.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

Yeo repping here:

http://news.bn.gs/article.php?story=20061213091127871
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Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:

I feel they should look into a new area ...Why spend money to fight in courth when money could be spent to own one..Such a project should be planned properly to cater for a full racing needs..A cost/benefit analysis should be carried out to justified..I feel if this move should be adopted a committee should be form, consisting a memeber from each racing section to form this committee to voice their opinon.

Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject:

who here..

i see 4 votes...

Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

views?

Fuzz Windu · Jedi Hopeful Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 219

i vote.. need to find a better place..but then again funding and red tape

Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

agreed...

Plex · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

Is there need for improvements or build an identical one

Yeo · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

It'll be "easier" to start fresh with a new complex and facilities than it'll be to attempt to bring Wallerfield up to international specs. We've lost the land, let's move on and grow.
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