The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was yesterday scrambling to have works completed on a vacant lot for dozens of vendors removed from Stabroek Square even as two government ministers on Wednesday called for a “humane approach” to the situation.
A massive clean-up of Stabroek Square on Sunday which saw the dismantling of stalls and the removal of carts has enraged vendors and led to a protest outside of City Hall and the Ministry of the Presidency on Tuesday. The city had promised to have a lot at Hadfield and Lombard streets ready for the vendors on Monday but this was not the case and this led to the protest.
Ministers of Communities and Social Protection, Ronald Bulkan and Volda Lawrence, respectively, met with Mayor Patricia Chase-Green,
