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Derek Achong

The State has been or­dered to pay over $70,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to an in­ter­na­tion­al to­bac­co dis­trib­u­tor with a free zone des­ig­na­tion, whose busi­ness was wrong­ly shut down for a month by a unit of the Min­istry of Health in 2023.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad or­dered the com­pen­sa­tion yes­ter­day as he par­tial­ly up­held North Amer­i­can Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed’s law­suit against the min­istry and the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.