Judge orders Gaming Authority to process Sleepin application for casino operator’s licence

The already built casino and hotel. (Stabroek News file photo)

Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln on Tuesday ordered the Gaming Authority to consider, process, and determine an application for a casino operator’s licence made by Sleepin International Hotel and Casino Inc. by or before the 28th February 2019.

The decision is a victory for Sleepin, which had applied for the licence since 2017.

It follows an application for an order of mandamus, also known as a compelling order, to compel the Authority to consider the hotel’s application after what it says is an unreasonable, inordinate delay of about one and half years in processing its application.