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Since when was a basement counted as a "storey"?
In their zeal to ruin RUI they are losing good sense. The facts are enough with which to hammer the hotel's construction problems ..... we don't need fiction.
RIU Hotel planned five storeys, one underground
Monday, May 05, 2008
Reliable Observer sources last night suggested that the RIU Hotel being built at Mahoe Bay near Montego Bay, St James was to have a fifth floor and not four floors as earlier reported.
The hotel is alleged to have a basement that was not detected by officials who combed the property last week. According to the sources, the basement floor would have bed- rooms, making it a five-storey hotel, against the three storeys approved by state agencies.
"The attention generated by media exposure and the strong position taken by Prime Minister Bruce Golding may cause a change in plans, now that everything is out in the open," the source close to RIU said.
Last week, Golding ordered that RIU demolish an unapproved fourth floor on three of its buildings at Mahoe Bay, after it emerged that the Spanish-owned hotel chain had added to approved building plans without going through the established channels.
The original construction plan dated June 29, 2007, was approved by the St James Parish Council, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and the Civil Aviation Authority, bearing in mind that the hotel was being built in the direct flight path of the Sangster International Airport three kilometres away.
A restriction of three storeys was imposed on the hotel. But a mysterious building plan, in Spanish, signed by the St James Parish Superintendent of Roads and Works and bearing the council's stamp, appeared in the past two or three weeks, showing four storeys but no mention of a fifth floor.
The mayor of Montego Bay, Charles Sinclair revealed that that plan had not come before his council, nor had any of the requiste fees been received by the council.
Golding also instructed that the matter be referred to the Police Fraud Squad for possible criminal charges and that the Parish Council Services Commission investigate the activities of the Superintendent of Roads and Works, Tubal Brown.
In their zeal to ruin RUI they are losing good sense. The facts are enough with which to hammer the hotel's construction problems ..... we don't need fiction.
RIU Hotel planned five storeys, one underground
Monday, May 05, 2008
Reliable Observer sources last night suggested that the RIU Hotel being built at Mahoe Bay near Montego Bay, St James was to have a fifth floor and not four floors as earlier reported.
The hotel is alleged to have a basement that was not detected by officials who combed the property last week. According to the sources, the basement floor would have bed- rooms, making it a five-storey hotel, against the three storeys approved by state agencies.
"The attention generated by media exposure and the strong position taken by Prime Minister Bruce Golding may cause a change in plans, now that everything is out in the open," the source close to RIU said.
Last week, Golding ordered that RIU demolish an unapproved fourth floor on three of its buildings at Mahoe Bay, after it emerged that the Spanish-owned hotel chain had added to approved building plans without going through the established channels.
The original construction plan dated June 29, 2007, was approved by the St James Parish Council, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and the Civil Aviation Authority, bearing in mind that the hotel was being built in the direct flight path of the Sangster International Airport three kilometres away.
A restriction of three storeys was imposed on the hotel. But a mysterious building plan, in Spanish, signed by the St James Parish Superintendent of Roads and Works and bearing the council's stamp, appeared in the past two or three weeks, showing four storeys but no mention of a fifth floor.
The mayor of Montego Bay, Charles Sinclair revealed that that plan had not come before his council, nor had any of the requiste fees been received by the council.
Golding also instructed that the matter be referred to the Police Fraud Squad for possible criminal charges and that the Parish Council Services Commission investigate the activities of the Superintendent of Roads and Works, Tubal Brown.
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