An­na-Lisa Paul

The St George East Li­cens­ing Com­mit­tee will vis­it three Wood­brook es­tab­lish­ments–Ross­co's, La Ha­bana and Tequi­la Twist–to­day.That de­ci­sion was an­nounced by head of the com­mit­tee, Se­nior Mag­is­trate An­nette Mc Ken­zie, dur­ing the li­cens­ing ses­sion in the Port-of-Spain Fourth Court yes­ter­day.She made the de­ci­sion af­ter con­sult­ing oth­er com­mit­tee mem­bers and at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the bar own­ers and ob­jec­tors.

En­dur­ing a two-and-a-half-hour ses­sion dur­ing which Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal, who rep­re­sent­ed Ross­co's own­er, Ross Milne, and Ravi Ra­j­coomar, who rep­re­sents Wood­brook res­i­dents Alyson My­ers, Fran­cis Joseph and Jacque­line Clifton, Mc Ken­zie hopes to­day's vis­it can end the pend­ing li­cence re­newals hear­ing next Thurs­day.See­ta­hal stressed that in the event an in­ter­im li­cence was grant­ed, ag­griev­ed res­i­dents could lat­er file a com­plaint.

Mc Ken­zie re­spond­ed that fol­low­ing his ap­pli­ca­tion last year, res­i­dents with­drew their com­plaints af­ter Milne promised to de­liv­er on cer­tain promis­es but nev­er did, hence the cur­rent im­passe.Mc Ken­zie lat­er in­formed Kurt Ho Hing, of Tequi­la Twist, and Milne the com­mit­tee would vis­it the site to­day at both busi­ness­es, as well as La Ha­bana, and re­quest­ed the ob­jec­tors in all ap­pli­ca­tions be avail­able to point out where their homes were sit­u­at­ed.

Just be­fore the court was dis­missed, See­ta­hal in­formed the mag­is­trate Milne would be us­ing the premis­es over the week­end to host a fam­i­ly lime and that no al­co­hol would be sold.The mat­ters were lat­er ad­journed to April 25.Al­so present in court yes­ter­day was Port-of-Spain May­or Louis Lee Sing and Wood­brook coun­cil­lor Cleve­land Gar­cia.

Ross­co's, La Ha­bana, Tequi­la Twist and Frankie's Restau­rant and Bar have re­mained closed for the past four weeks.Mc Ken­zie will al­so ad­dress Frankie's own­er, Chrisan­to Hor­sham's, ap­pli­ca­tion on Thurs­day as well.