Officials find 4 out of 5 bars breaking rules
(CNS): Police and inspectors from the various relevant government departments went out and about on spot checks of liquor licensed premises on Friday and found that several were breaching their licence requirements. Staff from the Department of Commerce and Investment (DCI), the Cayman Islands Fire Service and the RCIPS visited five George Town bars to determine whether they were in compliance with safety regulations. Four out of the five bars visited were found to have issues that needed to be addressed.
According to an RCIPS press release, some of these issues were corrected immediately, while others are being followed up by the relevant inspectors. There were no details about the alleged breaches and Inspector Courtney Myles appeared satisfied with the operation, despite the unspecified wrongdoing the team were said to have encountered.
“We are quite happy with how Friday’s safety checks went,” he said. “All of the establishments we visited demonstrated their willingness to work with us and comply with any necessary changes.”
Claudia Brady, DCI Head of Compliance and Enforcement, who oversees premises with liquor licences, said requirements attached to those licences are there primarily to ensure the safety of customers. “It’s our collective responsibility to ensure that those requirements are being met, which is why regular checks are so important,” she added.
The fire service also noted how important compliance with fire regulations is in safeguarding the community. “Prevention is better than cure,” said CIFS Acting Senior Divisional Fire Prevention and Investigation Officer Darnley Scott. “We at the Fire Service would like to commend and thank the LLB business owners and management for their continued cooperation, commitment and support regarding fire and life safety.”
Officials said the checks will continue throughout the year, with the next ones due to take place in August.
Regardless how many laws are passed, there is virtually no enforcement . Yes raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour and you will see how many will fill in jobs currently held by work holders from all over, where to them $6 if paid that is a lot of money back in their Country. Living here in cramped apts. Common man VISION.
Rules are broken here every day in bars, in work, on roads, nothing is ever done so?
The Brac has a major problem with underage bar patronage. Sad for such a small place. Even the foreign barmaids know they are not old enough to be on the premises…
Breaking rules in this country is a norm. Neither are enforced, ever.
Close them down, they are prostition hang outs and drug centers. Really ghetto people frequent the majority of those places. The countries they are from live it – lowlife.
so then they just hang out elsewhere….
exactly keep em away from my bar.
So these spot checks only happen once a year it seems. Where are the liquor inspectors on a daily basis? I see so many breaches taking place especially on weekends and these bar owners, including their staff, are not too concerned about what they’re doing because they know there is no enforcement when it comes to liquor licensing. What a mess liquor licensing has become.
Spot checks should happen randomly, not scheduled once a year.
Smoking continues to be a bewildering problem with many establishments putting ash trays on the tables, like it is still 1975. What happened to the Tobacco Law?
People are only allowed to smoke outdoors. I never see people able to smoke inside.
ever go to a cigar bar? how come employee health and safety concerns do not apply to these workers??
If you accept an offer of employment in a “cigar bar”, you are on your bloody own.
Outside, well away from doors and non-smokers, and only in approved designated smoking areas. Yet there are entire patios and bar counters filled with ashtrays, demonstrating that licensed establishments don’t care to understand the law. We in turn, shouldn’t care to continue their licensing. We have all known the negative health impacts since 1970’s and seem to ignore the reality that there shouldn’t be any smoking in 2019.
In the 70’s people was still smoking on planes
I miss my little ash tray in the armrest.
That was the 90’s and the seats in the back were great !
so spacious and cancerous!
On a trip to Canada this year they banish the smokers outside to an area about 30 feet away from doors and windows , outline it in a large red sign labelled ‘ SMOKERS ‘ and draw a yellow line on the do-not-cross zone. A country that actually enforces such laws.
There shouldn’t be any smoking in Canada either – places where people are educated, know the consequences, and should have drawn a tougher line decades ago. Canada are going in the opposite direction.
Its a choice thing in developed countries with educated and informed citizens. They can choose to smoke or not as long as they respect non smokers. They can do this because the citizens are culturally trained to think about others rights and needs along with theirs instead of just themselves. Won’t work here.
And nothing will be done. The licensing regime is one of the worst areas of local corruption and cartel behavior. It is the Absurdistan way.
I personally don’t believe that the rampant prostitution could exist without the enabling of the LLB. That wouldn’t be so bad, except for all the antisocial behaviour which accompanies it. I believe prostitution is a necessary evil, but shouldn’t be connected with a bar, club or pub.
I’d like to see more barmaids from the Scandinavian countries…
I do miss the old days of Lone Star, albeit primarily Canadian.
God bless Mike Flowers, a visionary.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! You have to look at this as an opportunity to learn Spanish.
you mean limons?
Those are limes
Learn Papi and you’re half way there.
aye
The biggest concern I have is that of underage drinking. It should be mandatory (under penalty of heavy fines and/or losing liquor-licenses) that all customers be carded upon entry of any drinking establishment or carded when ordering alcoholic beverages at restaurants that serve alcohol. All liquor stores and gas stations should be held to the same standard as well. It would be nice to name and shame those that don’t.
They all have fake ID.
Well Joey is fixing to fix the ID problem!
IDing minors?
They’ll be chipped at birth going forward.
Do hold your breath while waiting for that, please.
Before Joey fix the ID, he should fix the minimum wage, allowing Caymanians to get a job. Reduce approval of permits.
Used my doctored PADI card when I was 14 to get into Sharkey’s.
Might help explain the current anger issues.
This is Cayman. The Pirate code has more followers then the law does. Having a law on the books is Caymans thing. Just like having no enforcement of the laws is a Cayman thing. You can’t retrain a generation in 10 years.
There were no details about the alleged breaches … Is it a joke of some sort?
I understand the police and licensing inspectors are queueing up for this job – they have to be served a drink to prove their case.
Didn’t it make sense to carry the Labour office to look into the low wages that are paid to the workers…but in any event, kudos for the proactive work.
Carry who???? The Labour Office? Ever gone there lately to try and get assistance? I guess the answer is no based on this comment. That office is a total waste of time and energy. Takes them 5+ months to resolve a simple vacation and maternity dispute. Trying to speak to a human in there you would have better chance reaching Martians on some planet.
Try a problem with your pension.
True. I once worked there but could not take, nor change, the inefficiency.
Sorry you spelled it wrong.. *incompetence
This has been going on for years. Underage kids inside nightclubs and drinking alcohol. About time inspectors start getting engaged and do their jobs
About time parents actually parent their kids… How about that?
Not gonna happen here for at least two more generations. Its a cultural misunderstanding thing. They are proud parents when their kids can go out at night and get their own damn alcohol.
Please name and shame
Just apply the law and suspend their liquor license.
These days its very little shame and common sense, that’s why is so many young people on social services
George Town, so… think…
Typical private sector under performance thank you amazing Civil Service
Regulated (or not as the case may be) by who again?
When i went to sea at 17 , i travelled with an older man we went into a bar in Trenton NJ, the bar man said to me out, go out, you are under age i said i don’t drink liquer, i only want a soft drink, he said it does not matter, even if you only want water, you are not allowed in here get out now, or i will throw you out, i said i am sorry i didn’t know i am going out, i went out quickly. That’s the way it should be here.