Chicken vendor plucks Mayor Rose
By Selwyn Carr THE Mayoress, Rose Janneiere, and the Arima Borough Council have lost round one in their bid to remove a thriving chicken business from operating inside the market! Justice Madame Sealey granted an injunction holding back the corporation from demolishing the structure put up by Lennard Baptiste, brother of calypsonian, Lord Brigo. The corporation had threatened to demolish the man's business. Attorney Albert Edwards, filed suit on behalf of Baptiste against the corporation. A letter to Baptiste, signed by the borough’s Town Clerk, Michael Woods, noted that he “could not be allowed to operate from a health aspect.” This was after a $50-a-month licence...
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