The decision on whether to grant liquor licences to an applicant has been deferred by the Liquor Licensing Board pending notification on whether retail space at the Royal Watler Cruise terminal has been secured.
The applicant, Mr. Raymond Whittaker of Vomfass Cayman Ltd. had applied for a Package liquor licence and a Retail liquor licence along with a Music and Dancing licence for the Royal Watler Cruise Terminal.
Mr. Whittaker told the quarterly session of the board at Custom’s Headquarters Thursday that he did not yet have confirmation from the Port Authority that he had secured a space at the terminal.
He therefore asked that the board treat the application as a request for the licences to go to another location across the road.
The new application had been deferred from the previous meeting in December. Mr. Whittaker had made the application when the moratorium for new licences was recently lifted, but has since been closed again.
Chairman of the Liquor Licensing Board Mitchell Welds described the situation as peculiar, because he told Mr. Whittaker that he had applied for the licences under the Royal Watler location. He explained to Mr. Whittaker that to apply for another location would be a variation, and a licence cannot be varied until it has first been approved.
‘That’s the problem the board faces with this application,’ he said.
Mr. Welds said the Board would give Mr. Whittaker some more time to go back to the Port Authority and see if he had been granted a space at the terminal.
Mr. Whittaker thanked the board and the matter was deferred.
The terminal comprises 17 retail units, ranging from small kiosks to larger retail stores. Two of the units have already opened for business and eight other leases have been signed.
Final stages of negotiations for lease signings are taking place with the remainder of businesses, a press release from the Port Authority and the Valuation Office of the Lands and Survey Department said last week.
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