By Admin. Updated 12:58 p.m., Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4).
Lawyers representing the workers in the COVID-19 vaccine mandate case have moved to take the case to the Privy Council.
The London-based Privy Council is the final appellate court for St. Vincent and the Grenadines and other Commonwealth countries under its jurisdiction.
In a March 4 press release, Jomo Thomas Chambers said: “Yesterday, March 3, 2025 around 2:30 p.m. attorneys for the 271 dismissed workers in the Vaccine Mandate matter filed the legal documents seeking leave from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal to appeal the majority decision of the Court of Appeal to His Majesty’s Privy Council”
“On March 13, 2023, Justice Esco L. Henry ruled that the Government’s mandate commanding public workers to take a COVID-19 vaccine failing which they would be dismissed from their jobs and lose all benefits, including salary, pension, and gratuity, was unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, tainted with procedurally impropriety, and disproportionate,” the press release stated.
“However, in a majority ruling delivered by Justice of Appeal the Honourable Eddy Ventose on February 12, 2025, the Court of Appeal allowed the government’s appeal against the learned Justice Henry’s decision,” the press release added.
“The S.V.G Teachers’ Union, the Public Service Union, and the Police Welfare Association, representatives of the 271 dismissed workers, green-lighted the decision to appeal to His Majesty’s Privy Council,” the press release stated.
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