Timehri vendors have to move by Monday for road works

Stall Owners displaying their letters of approval to erect permanent structures in the market centre.

Timehri Neighbourhood Market stallholders are at loggerheads with government over their relocation, with the vendors demanding compensation while Transport Minister Robeson Benn says they will not be paid and are to move by Monday.

Benn told Stabroek News yesterday that he had already met with the stall owners and informed them that his ministry will not be issuing any form of compensation for their removal, which is to accommodate the expansion of the East Bank’s four lane highway at Timehri. He said there is,