Buxton vendors met Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn on Friday evening to discuss where they could be relocated.

The vendors who sell on the Embankment Road have been ordered to move as part of the ministry’s plan to clear the government reserves. Facilitator, George Culley said that an association – the Buxton-Friendship Market Vendors Association – had been formed to make the transition seamless.

The old Buxton/Friendship market is to be upgraded and a planning committee was formed to discuss ideas for the structure emerging from the meeting. A detailed sketch is to be prepared and presented to the ministry within a month’s time. Benn, noting that notices had been sent out, said in response to a question, that the vendors should have been off the reserve already. He noted that this was the law. For the time being, a minimal upgrade of the market could work, Benn said. He urged the vendors to decide and promised that they could work it out.

The association would plan a new market and look at all the possibilities, Culley said. He said that they would formulate their proposal to take to the authorities and ask for assistance.