CURE taking JPS case to Privy Council
THE Court of Appeal yesterday gave lobby group Citizens United for the Reduction of Electricity (CURE) final leave to take its fight regarding the Jamaica Public Service’s (JPS) exclusive licence to the UK-based Privy Council.
The appellate court, in March of this year, gave CURE provisional leave to appeal to the Privy Council, Jamaica’s final court of appeal.
Cure is challenging the Court of Appeal decision, in January, to overturn a ruling by the Supreme Court that the JPS’s exclusive licence to provide electricity across the island was invalid.
In October 2012, Justice Bryan Sykes ruled that the exclusive aspect of the 20-year all-island licence, issued by the then energy minister to JPS in 2001, was invalid.
That ruling meant that other players could join the energy market.