Topic: Liquor Board

It seemed like a fairly routine application. But businessman Gary Rutty’s efforts to get approval to sell liquor at his gas station store on Sundays turned into an administrative nightmare that was still rumbling at the close of 2017.

I suppose that policies and decisions are made by those in authority on the basis of what is fair. But fair to whom?

With all the other things happening on this island, why do they want to focus on the matter of what people do on Sundays?

The draft minutes appear to have been either edited or altered to “rewrite” the narrative of what actually took place at the March meeting. The changes are so extensive that we can draw no conclusion other than they were purposeful.

During its controversial March meeting, the Liquor Licensing Board of Grand Cayman granted an application from a gas station to sell alcohol on Sundays and, further, agreed that all gas stations that applied could obtain similar permission, according to an original set of minutes obtained by the Cayman Compass.

Government has ordered an independent inquiry into the liquor board’s handling of an application from a gas station to serve alcohol on Sundays. The inquiry follows reports and an editorial in the Cayman Compass highlighting concerns over an application from Peanuts convenience store at the Red Bay gas station for a “retail license.”