Rishard Khan

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

The own­er of Eden’s Sweet and Sour Hot Spot and spon­sor for the Mara­cas Look­out, Bob­by Singh, is re­quest­ing the req­ui­site ap­proval to build a toi­let fa­cil­i­ty for cus­tomers and pa­trons of the site.

“The on­ly thing I need right now is ap­proval be­cause we do every­thing by the book,” Singh told Guardian Me­dia dur­ing a vis­it on Good Fri­day.

He said he ap­plied for per­mis­sion un­der the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship ad­min­is­tra­tion.

“I did it over ten years ago and I got the ap­proval but then the gov­ern­ment changed, so then I kind of have to re­do it. But they’ve been very co­op­er­a­tive and every­thing. The Gov­ern­ment has been very nice to us,” he said.

Singh said he was will­ing to un­der­take the cost of the en­tire project, which would ben­e­fit, not on­ly his cus­tomers, but al­so tourists who stop off at the spot.

“We’re not re­al­ly go­ing to charge any high (fee). We’d charge like a tiny, very nom­i­nal fee just to pay for like the wa­ter we’d have to pur­chase and then for the lit­tle toi­letries. But we’re not re­al­ly go­ing to charge for it,” he said.

Guardian Me­dia reached out to Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan, on Fri­day but a re­sponse was not re­ceived.