Containers holding Liquidation Centre stock robbed

THE hits appear to keep coming for businesswoman Asha “Mrs. Ram” Mirchandani.

This as several containers holding goods from the now condemned Liquidation Centre were robbed last week after being moved from the Bay Street premises to a storage facility at the site of the old Cave Shepherd bond in Fontabelle.

Speaking to The Barbados Advocate yesterday, Mirchandani said she was shocked when the Royal Barbados Police Force notified her that several of the containers had been opened and “lots of goods” taken.

“The police told us they had seven persons in custody and asked us to identify if the goods they recovered were indeed ours, but we could not because we were not the ones who packed the containers and could not show ownership, and so those individuals were released because of lack of evidence,” she said.

Pointing out Government had acquired the building and not the stock within, Mirchandani said at this point, “they will have to pay us for everything”, while noting no one had informed her the containers were being moved.

In March of this year, Government compulsorily acquired the Bay Street property owned by the Mirchandani family to make way for the development of a multi-storey Hyatt Ziva hotel, and gave a November 4th deadline to vacate the premises.

After failing to receive the High Court’s approval of an injunction to stall the closure until January 2020, the doors closed on the business on the morning of November 18 when members of the police force and other government officials took possession.

Insisting she had lost thousands of dollars due to Government’s handling of the acquisition, Mirchandani remained adamant the four-week extension requested to the courts to keep the business open through the Christmas season would have mitigated some of the losses.

The business owner also took issue with photos on social media showing a messy interior of the former Bay Street business.

“We were not there and don’t know what happened during the time we left and as far as we are concerned something is not right, because they should have called us if they were going to inspect or do anything. We did not leave it in that way,” she adamantly asserted.

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