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The Break­fast Shed in Port-of-Spain, al­so known as Femmes Du Chalet, has re­opened fol­low­ing an in­ter­ven­tion by for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Robert Le Hunte, who wrote sev­er­al let­ters to var­i­ous in­sti­tu­tions on be­half of ten­ants.

The Break­fast Shed ten­ants had closed their doors on Oc­to­ber 30 in a dis­pute over $1.8 mil­lion in un­paid rent and oth­er is­sues, claim­ing they were forced out of the fa­cil­i­ty.

Le Hunte had ac­cused the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) of mis­clas­si­fy­ing the fa­cil­i­ty as a medi­um-in­dus­tri­al cus­tomer (D2) in­stead of a small-in­dus­tri­al class (D1), re­sult­ing in month­ly bills of around $13,000-14,000, when, he claims, they should have been clos­er to $3,000-5,000.