Masjid mulls legal action against GRA

Members of the Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara masjid are considering taking legal action against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for its continued granting of liquor licences to a business opposite it, despite a court order preventing this.

The issue over a liquor bar operating close to the mosque has been a recurring theme since 2005, and Halim Khan, an executive member of the masjid said the situation had become intolerable. He told Stabroek News in an interview on Tuesday that since 2005 when the issue first surfaced the mosque’s executive had sought the intervention of several top officials and moved to the High Court. Although an injunction was granted preventing the sale of liquor at the Lot 48 Meten-Meer-Zorg, Public Road address, the GRA recently approved a licence for someone else……