No boom, just bust at Wismar market

The leaning oil tank at the back of one vendor’s shop

Less than a decade after an over $100 million reconstruction, the Wismar Municipal Market still isn’t seeing much activity and its remaining stallholders are hoping for an intervention to keep them in business.

“We in here struggling to pull a dollar,” said vendor Jillie Amsterdam, during a recent fact finding mission at the facility by Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon, Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon and councillors Gerald Wittington, Maurice Butters and Stanley Humphrey. “When the day come is bad enough, but look, it just after four