Almost all Potter’s Cay vendors are eligible for arrest and prosecution for selling alcohol without a licence, it was announced by police yesterday.
The announcement came in the wake of a police raid on Monday in which twelve vendors at the popular eating and drinking place were arrested and charged with illegally serving alcohol.
The majority of the approximately 40 stalls on Potter’s Cay are believed to commit the same offence on a regular basis.
Vendors at Potter’s Cay who were arrested stated that the matter could have been handled in a more diplomatic manner by the team of police officers.
“This is not only a Bahamian thing, this is a tourist environment. We need the Minister of Tourism to get their liquor back. They say they believe so much in local business and this is local business right here. Why should tourists only go to Atlantis or to the Bay STreet merchants? What happen to the local guy?” asked a customer of McKinzie’s Fresh Fish and Conch on Potter’s Cay.
Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune
