The state-run Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC) has secured a High Court injunction against a father-and-son farming family business on lands surrounding the protected Three Houses Spring in St Philip — one of the island’s oldest continuously used spring in the country.

The injunction, granted pending a substantive hearing later this year, follows allegations of pollution and the diversion of the stream’s natural flow.

Three defendants — PJ Holdings Limited, John Marshall and Paul Marshall — were recently ordered by Justice Michelle Weekes to refrain from diverting, obstructing or interfering with the natural flow of Three Houses Spring; and from discharging or permitting the discharge of effluent, wastewater or other pollutants into the spring.