Six Retail Liquor Licences have been granted to Renard Moxam for Camana Bay following the most recent quarterly session of the Liquor licensing Board.
Along with this, six Music and Dancing Licences were also granted to the businessman.
Mr. Moxam, who had made his application during the recent lifting of the moratorium on new licences, is a partner with Island Companies and affiliated with the Tropical Trader restaurant group.
His application had been deferred from previous meetings.
The most recent meeting took place on Thursday morning at Custom’s Headquarters on Owen Roberts Drive.
The licences he has been granted will be for six restaurants in the new town development of Camana Bay, currently under construction.
Chairman of the Board Mitchell Welds thanked Island Companies and Dart Realty for allowing the board to tour the Camana Bay facility last Wednesday.
The Board members had been impressed with it, he said, and it had given the board a better idea of where the buildings for the restaurants will go.
Board member Craig Nixon asked that the Board be kept up to date with security measures and how they would plan to keep consumption of alcohol confined to the restaurant areas within Camana Bay.
Mr. Moxam said the best security was on hand there, with former RCIPS Detective Chief Superintendent Derek Haines heading it up. He told Mr. Nixon that Mr. Haines could do a report to pass on to the secretary of the Liquor Licensing Board.
Mr. Moxam confirmed to the chairman of the board that the licences being sought would all be for restaurants. However, he said that was not to say that at some point in the future there would not be a bar arrangement.
Mr. Welds pointed out that the moratorium is now back in place for the granting of new licences.
Speaking to the Caymanian Compass, Mr. Moxam noted that the restaurants he has in mind would be a combination of fine dining and family restaurants.
They would be more upscale versions of the Tropical Trader restaurants Cimboco, Breezes and Chicken! Chicken! with the same Caribbean theme, he said.
Mr. Moxam said the schedule they have in place looks to have at least one restaurant established in 12 months time, but this is all dependent on many factors, including weather.
The restaurants, he said, will be across an area known as Restaurant Row, which will overlook the water.
Mr. Moxam said the idea is to lease out the properties, and in having the liquor licence the calibre of tenant can be controlled.
He said he was not yet 100 per cent if the Tropical Trader Restaurant group would be operating a restaurant from there.
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