Proposals from several local nightclubs to extend drinking and operating hours on Friday nights into Saturday mornings were delayed for a second time before the Liquor Licensing Board of Grand Cayman during a meeting held earlier this month.
According to a list of board decisions, Jet Nightclub, O Bar, the L.I. Lounge, and the recently shuttered Club Allure asked to extend drinking hours until 3am Saturdays and extend music and dancing hours until 3.30am. Elements nightclub in Camana Bay asked to extend music and dancing hours until 4am in addition to requesting its drinking hours be extended until 3am.
Currently, the operating hours of those businesses on Saturday mornings extend until 2am for alcohol sales and 3am for music and dancing.
Nightclub owners have repeatedly asked for an extension on their hours since local bars are allowed to serve alcohol until 1.30am and to stay open until 2am, which the nightclubs say cuts into their business.
Decisions on the applications for extended hours were deferred at the June meeting of the liquor board. Similar applications from four of the five clubs had already been deferred at the board’s March meeting.
Board chairman Mitchell Welds said this week he expected the issue to be resolved by the next board meeting, tentatively scheduled for the middle of September.
Other board decisions
*The Agave Grill in George Town was granted a change in license category from retail to distributor; and licensee for the business’s retail licence was also changed.
• The Bayside Café, formerly of 238 North Church Street, changed the location of its retail liquor license to the Old Gaol Café at the junction of South Church Street and Goring Avenue.
The licence category also changed from retail to beer and wine.
• An application of change of licence location for a package duty free liquor licence at the Port Authority building was granted for Tortuga Rum Company, but a request for removal of the duty free restriction placed on that licence was denied.
• A location change for the package liquor licence for DJ’s restaurant to 13 Crewe Road was granted.
• The liquor licence for the former Bed Restaurant on West Bay Road was changed to the Eucalyptus building in George Town.
• The Corner Pocket bar in George Town was denied permission to operate on Wednesdays and Fridays until 2am the following morning.
• Requests for liquor sales on outdoor patio locations were denied for Archie’s Place on Shedden Road and Triple Crown Pub on West Bay Road, and deferred for the Everglo Bar in Bodden Town.
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No drinking on the patio at Triple Crown? That’s ridiculous! This is an island and we can’t even sit outside and have a drink now? One of my favourite things to do would be to go and sit outside and have a meal and a drink. This is sad news indeed.
I think this applies to sales on outside patios, not service.