Mauritius Bureau
PORT LOUIS, (CAJ News) – BRITAIN’S stranglehold over the Chagos Islands despite orders by the International Court of Justice to cede them to Mauritius has encountered a fresh blow after Chagossian people sued to the tune of £1 billion ($1,38 billion) for lost fishing rights.
Queen Elizabeth II is the main respondent in the case at the British Indian Ocean Territory Supreme Court.
“There is no doubt the Chagos Archipelago fishing rights have both monetary and cultural value and the Chagossians are barred from even entering the territory’s waters,” said Dr Jonathan Levy, the international lawyer representing the Chagos islanders.
By Peter Pan
Never before, I fancy, the influx of colonial people in London has been as steady as it has been during the past five or six years.
As a matter of fact, one daily comes across thousands of Jamaicans, Nigerians, West Indians, Indians, Mauritians, etc., in the most popular areas of London, to wit, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Hyde Park, Madame Tussaud, London Museum, University of London, Colonial Office, Mauritius Bureau, not to speak of places of worldwide repute like Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, with Big Ben towering high in the air, and the Thames flowing by under a grey, dull sky…