Parika vendors clash with NDC body

May 30, 2009 News

Vendors operating outside the Parika Market were irate because their Neighbourhood Democratic Council Chairman, Krishna Samlall, was forcefully removing them from outside the market where they operated, and had ordered people to seize their goods if they refused his orders.

Yesterday, some 25 vendors, who claimed that they were affected, told Kaieteur News that workers associated with the Parika NDC, under orders from the NDC Chairman, seized their goods each day. Many sustained severe losses when the goods are returned. These vendors market fruits, vegetables and other food items, and claimed that when their goods are seized, many items go missing.
The vendors said that they are forced to pay either $6,000 or $10,000 before they can reclaim their goods from the NDC.

The vendors said that because they were placed to the very rear of the market, behind the fish vendors, they record minimal sales since hardly anyone ventures to this location to make purchases.
They said that sales dwindled drastically, recently, forcing them to now occupy a spot behind the market where better sales can be garnered.

The vendors said that in the Parika market there are beer gardens, clothing and cosmetic stalls. These things leave no space for them to be housed in the same structure.
They complained that in as much as they don’t sell in the market they are required to pay $600 or $700 per stall to the NDC, since that body furnished them with the structures.
When the NDC Chairman was contacted yesterday, he noted that the vendors were repeatedly informed that they couldn’t ply their trade outside the market. He said that they seemed to have ignored the warnings altogether.

He said that he was operating under direct orders from the Ministry of Local Government went he instructed persons to seize the goods of vendors who continued to operate outside of the market.
He noted that at present he is making arrangements for fruit and vegetable vendors to operate on a daily basis at the front of the market, which will ensure they obtain maximum possible sales.
Until this arrangement is made possible, the vendors will have to operate at the location, which they claim prevents them from getting sales, he said.

He added that not so long ago the vendors had requested that a concrete wall, which prevented shoppers from actually seeing them, be removed and he had it done promptly.
He promised to address the claims of losses by the vendors, but noted that when the goods are returned to the vendors, they continue to sell again in the illegal area and even taunt the men who had seized their goods before.

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