Prospects grim for displaced Saffon Street vendors

Not quite mobile vending: A bobcat moving a stall from one half of Sussex Street to another as La Penitence Market vendors yesterday began voluntarily removing from Saffon Street where road extension is scheduled to begin on Thursday. (Photo by Jules Gibson)

“It hurt me ah lot ya know because ya gun go at the back deh and people ain’t gun know you at the back deh. Business is very slow right now and I don’t know what we gun do,” a tearful Drupattie Arjune, 60, said as she watched her small, wooden stall, being ripped apart board by board yesterday morning.

Arjune, who has sold groceries along Saffon Street at La Penitence Market for over 12 years,