Wapa

WAPA Counsel Join Governor Bryan in Opposing Law Changing Board Composition; Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction

The V.I. Water and Power Authority has joined Governor Albert Bryan in opposing a recently enacted law that changed the composition of the WAPA board, and earlier this week Superior Court Judge Renee Gumbs Carty granted a preliminary injunction that called for the law to be cast aside until a permanent injunction hearing scheduled for Oct. 5 determines the law's fate. In a judgement handed down on Monday, Judge Gumbs Carty ordered the WAPA board not to implement any changes set in motion by the new law, Act. 8472. The order further prohibited the board from "acknowledging or recognizing any new member appointed or elected," and it barred the WAPA board from removing any member discharged as a result of the new law. Additionally, the order blocks the WAPA board from making any changes as prescribed by the law, and said the status quo should remain in place. Though the outcome won't be known until Judge Gumbs Carty rules on the matter on Oct. 5, Mr. Bryan's case is strengthened as WAP...