A PUBLIC sale of the Trident Hotel, one of the most luxurious sea front properties in Portland, will no longer take place today as scheduled, according to the would-be auctioneers, D.C. Tavares & Finson Realty.
The auction was withdrawn after being advertised yesterday, the second time in as many months that the tourist resort should have gone up for public sale but was removed from the list at the eleventh hour.
The sale, which was expected to take place at D.C. Tavares & Finson's Belmont Road, New Kingston auction room, was being made by an order of the Court in a suit filed in 1996.
Managers at the Trident Hotel were unavailable for comment yesterday. However, in March, this year when the hotel was taken off the auction block a day before it should have been put to tender, Suzanne Levy, daughter of the owner Earl Levy, said it arose from a legal dispute with the Half Moon Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James. Miss Levy said then that the auction was being withdrawn because the dispute "is all sorted out."
The Trident Hotel has 26 villa suites and rooms, made up of 11 deluxe rooms, 14 deluxe villa suites, an imperial suite, common areas and spaces variously utilised, as well as a pool and a number of gazebos - all of which were up for sale.
