How to positively transform the general ambience in and around the city’s municipal markets is not a question to which the Georgetown municipality has been able to provide a persuasive answer in years.
What the bureaucrats at City Hall seemingly fail to understand is that grand one-off initiatives attended by a generous measure of hype and hoopla are really no adequate substitute for a sustainable plan, which encompasses what it really takes to provide a holistic environmental transformation in Georgetown and its environs.
From the dismantling of the old Bedford school building to the changed logistical arrangements for trading on Merriman Mall, much of the transformation initiative undertaken by City Hall has been centred around Bourda Market and its environs. The consensus was that what obtained was untenable: vendors trading in the shadows of a derelict building probably on the verge of collapse; a filth-infested environment that simply could not come even close to being remedied by the relatively feeble interventions of the garbage disposal service; congestion;
