“I grow up on the market, since I was a child. Me mother had 14 children and it was really hard because since we growing we sleeping on the market. But I don’t want that for me children, I does try as much to don’t get them in the market, I want better for them.”
Words of 36-year-old Kim Rampersaud a popular provision and greens vendor on the outskirts out Bourda Market in Bourda Street. The mother of eight was having an afternoon a chat with some other vendors when she was introduced to me by a regular customer. I explained I wanted to interview her and gave her the option of talking to me anonymously.
“No, I don’t care if you carry my name, wah I guh tell you is about life because being a single parent on this market is not easy you know. Me ain’t telling you no lies and I not talking about nobody else I talking of me and me life,” she said, acquiescing to my request.
