Relocation of Stabroek square vendors is anti-poor – PPP

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday condemned the forced relocation of vendors from the Stabroek Market square, calling it both “anti-people” and “anti-poor.”

In a statement issued yesterday, the party said the justification for the removal of the vendors—cleaning up the city for the impending independence celebrations—is unpardonable and must be rejected by all fair-minded Guyanese.

“The vendors must be allowed to ply their trade and their earn living in an honest and law abiding manner, as they have been doing,” it said, while criticising the city council for