The Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Avi­a­tion Mu­se­um (CMHAM) has un­til Fri­day to va­cate the premis­es it oc­cu­pies at West­ern Main Road, Care­nage Bay. In a let­ter dat­ed Oc­to­ber 1, 2024, the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) with­drew its 30-year lease of­fer to the mu­se­um’s di­rec­tor, Lin­da Kelshall. She said the mu­se­um hous­es more than 500 years of his­to­ry.

The CDA said they made sev­er­al at­tempts to reg­u­larise CMHAM as a lessee, but in the last four years have not re­ceived a sub­stan­tive re­sponse from the pro­pri­etors who con­tin­ue to op­er­ate on the land with­out pay­ing rent.

CMHAM Vice Pres­i­dent Bri­an Mitchell said it was not the first time the CDA had tried to evict the mu­se­um. In 2013 the CDA of­fered them an al­ter­na­tive par­cel of land, but the ne­go­ti­a­tions broke down on the is­sue of pay­ing for the land.