City Hall made the decision to “open the roads” to vending for revenue collection and to bring order to the roads, Town Clerk Royston King said on Monday.
During Monday’s statutory meeting of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), the issue of vendors being allowed to occupy the roadway in front of the Stabroek Market and on Regent Street, was raised by Deputy Mayor Lionel Jaikaran, who noted that he had read of such in the newspapers.
In Monday’s edition of the Stabroek News, a letter from Eon Andrews, President of the Guyana Market Vendors Union, was published. In it, Andrews asked whether the Market and Public Health Committee, chaired by Jaikaran, was instrumental in initiating the exercise, which he noted usually begins around December 15th. He also questioned whether the arrangement is permanent, who set the rates and why, and whether those rates were for rental or whether they represented a “cleansing fee.”
