The Tribune

By NATARIO McKENZIE

Tribune Business

Reporter

nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net

MEMBERS of the Coconut Grove Business League (CGBL) are now pushing for a meeting with Prime Minister Perry Christie in a bid to reverse the one-way traffic system on Baillou Hill Road and Market Street, a spokesman for the group telling Tribune Business: “The natives are getting restless.”

Ethric Bowe, spokesman for the CGBL, told Tribune Business that after attempts to have a sit-down with Minister of Works and Urban Development, Philip Brave Davis, proved unsuccessful, the group was now seeking an audiance with the Prime Minister.

Mr Bowe said: “We are trying to meet with the Prime Minister because we are just not getting any communication from the people we had tried to meet with so far.

“On the surface that doesn’t look good but we will have to see. The natives are getting restless. People are getting very concerned that we have not heard sufficient, and not seen anything and people re not meeting with us. That’s not a good thing, but we are trying to be as patient as possible because we prefer an atmosphere of co-operation rather than confrontation. That’s where we are right now.”

Mr Bowe said the group’s position remains clear and consistent.

He added: “We would really love to have the directions of the roads changed back to what they were because that will stop the hurt. All you will have to do then is try to get your customers back.

“For the people who are already closed, there is nothing you can do about them. We would love to have the road turned back. That’s our position and it’s not going to change.”

The CGBL, a group of some 50 businesses, took their fight to court, and in December 2010 secured a victory in the Supreme Court against the Government over the road changes, only to see that decision overturned by the Court of Appeal.