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May 19, 2012 News
…Vendors claim “no sales, no money”
Vendors at the New Stelling View Mall yesterday expressed anger at the high crime rate around the market area. They claimed that the crime affects their business tremendously.
Yesterday, a few vendors told Kaieteur News that since the Mayor and City Council instructed them to move to the mall, they have not been getting any sales.
The New Stelling View Mall was constructed late last year at an estimated cost of $40M. The facility which houses 66 concrete stalls was established to accommodate those vendors who were selling outside the Stabroek Market.
The market is located within the vicinity of the Georgetown Ferry Stelling and the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security.
Vendors however are claiming that customers are scared to visit the mall, which once housed shabby stalls and served as a haven for criminals at nights. “They say thieves just deh in them corner waiting fuh when them come buy and grab them bag,” a vendor told this publication.
“Customer ain’t come here at all. We sleeping the entire day. Them greens vendors have to wait after 04:00 hrs when them council workers gone home to go out at the entrance and sell,” one vendor, Veronica Holder, said.
Holder, who has been a clothes vendor for 40 years, accused the council of “taking away the bread and butter from our mouth.”
The angry woman said that the council removed them from the Stabroek Market Square to “put a car park there and now we are begging for customers.”
“We gotta pay money every month and people are not coming to shop, them say they getting robbed. We are hurt that they put us out for a car park. Right now we can’t afford to send our children to the daycare,” the woman claimed.
Another vendor said, “If they put us out on the road we can afford to pay two times the rent because we know people will come and buy.”
“Some days we don’t even want come here because of this everyday stress but we can’t even stay home because them say they will take the stall away from us.”
Kaieteur News understands that the vendors are highly upset that the Council removed them from the market square to setup a car park. Added to that, is the fact that these vendors are not getting any sales.
They however, wish for the council to look into their plight and assist them in some way.
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