Chief Citizen Alfred Mentore yesterday blasted City Engineer Colvern Venture for not issuing a cease order on works underway for a Qatari Hotel on disputed lands along Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown and he also signalled that court action is imminent.
Venture at the Mayor and City Council’s statutory meeting yesterday in his defence said that “The cease order was not issued as a result of me not getting to validate who the owners are. When I visited the location no one was occupying there, I wrote the Town Clerk (Candace Nelson) requesting a copy of the transport so that we can know who the owners are as such because of the allocations that were stated on the transport, some research was done and showed that the transport which was circulated by the city council claiming the ownership of that particular plot of land does not speak to that and a result of that I could not issue the cease order”.
