Starlite says its parking lots are for elderly and other customers

Star­lite Group Lim­it­ed (SGL) has made it clear that cones be­ing used in its Diego Mar­tin phar­ma­cy's car park are in­tend­ed to en­sure its park­ing spaces re­main avail­able for cus­tomers, par­tic­u­lar­ly el­der­ly per­sons and those with lim­it­ed mo­bil­i­ty who need con­ve­nient ac­cess to the phar­ma­cy's en­trance.

This comes af­ter Min­is­ter of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der ver­bal­ly at­tacked the es­tab­lish­ment's man­age­ment and own­er on Mon­day, call­ing for a "boy­cott" of the busi­ness.

Alexan­der, in a vit­ri­ol- and in­vec­tive-laced out­burst di­rect­ed par­tic­u­lar­ly at Star­lite Group Ltd man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Ger­ald Aboud, took is­sue with cones the es­tab­lish­ment had placed in park­ing spaces re­served for phar­ma­cy cus­tomers. He fumed about "De One Per­cent".