Rock Hard loses another appeal

St Lu­cia-based ce­ment im­porter Rock Hard Dis­tri­b­u­tion and its lo­cal deal­er Rock Hard Dis­trib­u­tors have suf­fered a sec­ond de­feat in their bid to chal­lenge the quo­ta and li­cens­ing sys­tem for ce­ment im­por­ta­tion in­tro­duced in 2021.

Last week, Ap­pel­late Judges Prakash Moo­sai, Char­maine Pem­ber­ton, and Gillian Lucky dis­missed an ap­peal from the com­pa­nies over a col­league’s de­ci­sion to up­hold the sys­tem.

The out­come was es­sen­tial­ly aca­d­e­m­ic as the sys­tem was even­tu­al­ly sus­pend­ed by the Gov­ern­ment in Feb­ru­ary 2024.