Dear Editor,
As a matter of public concern, I wish to bring to the attention of the Minister of Home Affairs that permission has purportedly been granted to promoters (name given) to promote and host an “Uncensored Private Party” with “Exotic Brazilian Dancers” at Celebs Sports Bar, Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast on July 26, 2014. Attached with this letter is a scanned copy of the ticket which is currently on sale for this “extravaganza.”
As proprietor of the premises and landlord in the tenancy agreement, I have already enlisted legal counsel to examine potential breaches of that document and any consequent restitution owing to me. Notwithstanding, this event, as advertised or even conceptualized, violates constitutional and legal protections offered to law-abiding citizens against debauchery, lewdness and incivility.
Celebs Sports Bar is exactly that—a sports bar that from its inception offered a service in compliance with all legal, environmental and municipal laws and by-laws. Foremost, it has always been a business that pursued a mutually respectful relationship with all members of the public. Under the current management, the establishment has become legally and morally dissipated, which is the sole reason for my current proceedings to evict the tenant and his agents. The uncensored private party with exotic dancers, and “Anything goes” rhetoric underlines the degeneracy.
More offensive is the fact that such depravity is being imported into a residential community in the full view of mothers, fathers and their children. My parents, one of whom is disabled, are also trapped in this bedlam. In essence, the current management of this bar have eschewed not just every responsibility to particular clauses in their tenancy agreement, but more shockingly, to decorum, decency and residents’ peaceful habitation of their community. I therefore stand in solidarity with the residents of Cotton Field, particularly those who have recently voiced their disgust against these recent illegitimate, vulgar practices.
In light of the foregoing, I wish to entreat a public response from the Anna Regina Police Station about whether permission for a music and dance licence for this event has been approved.
If so, I, like the residents of Cotton Field, eagerly await a public disclosure of the rationale. I am also interested to find out why the promoters have already printed and sold tickets for an event for which it may not yet have permission. Can promoters in this country be that brazen, if not foolhardy?
I intend to hold the tenant and his agents legally responsible for all contractual breaches. It is my hope the Ministry of Home Affairs, and its regional outposts and personnel will honourably discharge their mandate by rejecting permission for this event, and preserving the decency and civility for citizens as enshrined in the constitution and laws of this country.
Yours faithfully,
Romain Khan
