Vendors raise concerns about municipal markets

Mar 19, 2011 News

Vendors of both Kitty and La Penitence Markets have told this publication that authorities had promised to repair the facilities since 2010. Now that it is the ending of the third month of 2011 there is still no support or move to repair the markets.
City Mayor Hamilton Green, in a recent interview, said that the City Council is still unable to finance the rebuilding or any developmental works on the Kitty market which is currently in an advanced state of deterioration.
“The cost is very high and the rates and taxes collected are not sufficient to undertake such a task.”
He revealed, too, that at a recent meeting with some of the market vendors, he had advised that they send a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo, informing him of their dilemma.
It is the Mayor’s belief that the vendors could receive the much needed assistance from the level of Central Government.
“We can’t keep working under this condition…Anytime this building could fall down. We want Government to do something,” one vendor related. As of last year several proposals were hanging in the balance as it relates to the rehabilitation of the dilapidated municipal facility.
Clerk of Markets, Mr Schulder Griffith, had recommended that the facility be converted to a single flat with a common roof.
With such a design in place Griffith had expressed confidence that the operations of the almost 100 vendors that have still opted to endure the deplorable condition could be greatly improved. However, even this recommendation has not taken shape to date.
But it has not only been the vendors of the Kitty Market that have raised concerns about their vending conditions. Vendors at the La Penitence Market have shared concerns about that facility too.
During a visit to the market vendors, particularly those placed in the fish pond said that their business is suffering because the roof leaks whenever it rains. With the ongoing construction of the bridge outside of the market some of the vendors have been displaced.
A female vendor said she is very displeased with the present condition of the fish pond.
“When the rain falls we get wet from head to toe and we don’t get sale.” She stressed that because of the leakage on the roof over the fish pond customers refuse to enter to make purchases because the place is usually flooded during periods of rainfall.

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