This was in response to the 14-day probation period for the reopening of community bars and taverns amid austere measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

However, more than an hour and a half after the doors of the bar on Balcombe Drive, Waterhouse, opened, she had only one customer playing one of 12 slot machines and all the time on her hands.

Her employer, Delroy Allen, had spent just about $8,000 on hand sanitisers, masks, and signage in keeping with new COVID-19 stipulations.

Seating arrangements on the outside of bars must also maintain physical distance of six feet between each unit.

However, at another bar in the area, the owner said that she hadn’t effected changes because the new arrangements would not be commercially feasible.