{"id":82880,"date":"2019-11-25T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=82880"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:25:39","slug":"billionaire-calvin-ayre-dismisses-claims-of-victimisation-by-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/billionaire-calvin-ayre-dismisses-claims-of-victimisation-by-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Calvin Ayre Dismisses Claims Of Victimisation By Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Calvin Ayre, a billionaire philanthropist, has dismissed claims of victimisation by vendors saying they are spreading a lot of misinformation.<\/p>

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He further addded, ” I think the appropriate people to talk to about the vendors would most likely be the Tourism [department].”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t doing anything on the beach,\u201d he rebutted. \u201cAll we\u2019re doing is fixing the club up.\u201d<\/p>

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Ayre recently bought Castaways, the beach club, and announced that he will be renaming it to Bodog Beach.<\/p>

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A number of vendors, who have been plying their trade on the beach for many years, have accused Ayre and Prime Minister Gaston Browne of using their considerable wealth and influence to force them off the beach.<\/p>\n

The DCA had given the vendors the option of operating on the beach with the condition that all of the beach equipment must be cleared from the beach at the end of the working day.<\/p>

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However, for many vendors this would mean that they would have to incur significant additional costs as they would have to use trucks to transport the over 50 beach chairs and other equipment they use on a daily basis to ply their trade.<\/p>\n

Ayre added, \u201cGaston and the government are working \u2026 and has given them some new facilities that\u2019s slightly down the beach.\u201d<\/p>

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Calvin Ayre, a billionaire philanthropist, has dismissed claims of victimisation by vendors saying they are spreading a lot of misinformation. 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