What are they drinking at the Hyatt?

Submitted by Edmund Gall on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 08:37
I've got a few questions regarding the Hyatt Hotel liquor licence issue.
 
Firstly, I thought that the Hyatt Corporation was contracted to manage the hotel, including delivery of all services within the hotel. If that's so, why should the liquor licence be awarded to the (soon to be ex-)CEO of UDeCoTT?  Why was it not awarded to a representative of the Hyatt?  Is UDeCoTT running the bars and restaurants at the Hyatt?
 
Secondly, the new licence was reportedly awarded this week to the same person when it is public knowledge that she is leaving the position at the end of this month. So when the licence needs to be renewed next year, what will happen if she's not around?
 
Are the buildings built by UDeCoTT owned by the government or by UDeCoTT?  If the former, and it is right to award the licence to the owner of the premises, why isn't the licence awarded to the Minister of Finance or the Minister of Planning as the line ministers representing the owner?

A senior police officer said that the liquor licence covers the storage of liquor.  So in his view, all liquor at the hotel should have been confiscated until a new licence could be awarded.  Instead we had the hotel giving away all alcoholic drinks this past weekend for free.

When the hotel had a free drinks Easter weekend, reportedly because they could not charge for liquor without the holding of a licence, did the funding for that come from the Hyatt Corporation, or was that our tax dollars at play?
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Hyatt Port of Spain

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