Barbers who operate around the city bus parks and the Stabroek Market area were yesterday ordered to immediately cease operations or face prosecution, but the men are calling this move “irrational” and “vindictive”.
“How can we move from here when we have nowhere else to go and have been hustling for over 15 years without any problems? We have families to feed…seems the council want us to go and thief …and seh watch dem thieving when they coulda be earning an honest daily bread,” said one of the barbers who asked to be called only ‘Barber boy’.
He said that sometime back he gave his real name to someone whom he felt was doing a news article and was shocked to receive a summons the next day from the court with the
