00:00Several calls have been made to the Urban Development Corporation in a bid to discuss a list of issues.
00:06They include the following, rent payments owed by the vendors to Uticot,
00:10monies allegedly owed to the breakfast shed by way of a $2.6 million electricity overpayment
00:17due to the wrong classification by Uticot,
00:19and monies said to be owed to the vendors under the original breakfast shed relocation agreement.
00:25As vendors have been given until the end of April to vacate the premises,
00:28Chairman of Friends of the Breakfast Shed Robert Lee Hunt indicates that all requests for a meeting have fallen on
00:35deaf ears.
00:36The vendors are therefore respectfully asking that the notice to quit be rescinded
00:42so that meaningful dialogue can take place.
00:49We are also respectfully calling on the Honourable Jolene John,
00:53Minister with Responsibility for Uticot, to intervene
00:57so that a fair and constructive resolution can be achieved.
01:02Lee Hunt states that the vendors have been unjustly treated in a number of ways,
01:07including having to pay rent while the establishment was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic
01:11and having part of their space taken during the Carnival period
01:15for the hosting of the Hyatt Lime Fet while not receiving a cent from that event.
01:20He is unsettled by reasons he claims Uticot is stating for not meeting with them.
01:25We have gotten fibrillous reasons.
01:27Well, if you are looking at a matter of legal action, of money owed since 2005,
01:36we can't talk to you.
01:38Legal representative for the vendors' attorney at law, Kenneth Monroe Brown,
01:42states that upon Uticot's request, he wrote to them on behalf of the vendors.
01:46And what did they do? They never responded. Never responded.
01:52Instead, they decided, well, hey, notice to quit.
01:57So that's like retaliation. How dare you?
02:01Apart from seeking an intervention from Minister John, Monroe Brown makes another appeal.
02:06But we're calling on them publicly to sit with us or have your operatives at Uticot sit with us.
02:14Or we're calling on the prime minister to direct them to sit with us.
02:19They also expect a ruling from the Regulated Industries Commission by the end of March
02:24concerning the overpayment in electricity.
02:26According to Lee Hunt, the money owed by the state to the vendors
02:30is a lot more than what the vendors are owing to the state.
02:33He says rectifying the situation hinges on history, fairness and dialogue.
02:38Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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