While vendors have been allowed to sell in open spaces around the Stabroek Market once more, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green says City Hall did not waste money by removing them from the Stabroek Square last year.
“I don’t think we wasted money in that area. The council wanted that place cleared, especially the civic square (in front of Stabroek Market) and we accomplished it,” she said, before adding that no vendor would be allowed to go back to the square or in front of Demico House and the former KFC building, which they once occupied.
“Quite a number of crimes have been committed in that area and we had to do something,” the mayor added. She also stated that the flow of traffic within the Stabroek Square has also improved. She pointed out that the Guyana Fire Service, which is headquartered in the area, can have
