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Record stores unhappy with DVDs street vendors
– City Council says they will be gone by January 5th
Tensions have risen between a number of music shops in the city and street vendors over their proximities to each other.
Already, Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, who is in the United States, told Kaieteur News that he has ordered that a number of vendors selling DVDs and CDs and operating too close to licensed record bars, especially in the Regent Street area, be relocated.
However, according to Green, he has had reports that nothing was being done by the City Council.
Legit record stores in the city are unhappy with street vendors who are competing with them unfairly and selling too close to their facilities.
He said that he has left messages with his office for an update on the situation but there is no word.
A number of record bars on Regent and Robb Streets have been complaining that street vendors have been bold enough to sell right in front of their businesses. None of the stores wanted to be named yesterday.
“We paying for our licences and taxes and other requirements…so it is very unfair when we have to deal with them blatantly operating in front of our stores.”
With the Christmas fever in the air, the traditional pavement vendors are out in droves, especially on Regent Street. At the corner of King and Regent Streets, passersby were attracted to deals being offered through pirated DVDs— as many as eight being offered for $1,000.
Further down, near Shamdas Kirpalani, it was the same thing.
Contacted Friday, Public Relations Officer of the City Council, Royston King, said that he was aware that orders were made to relocate the street vendors selling DVDs and CDS too close to the record stores.
However, he stressed, the vendors are seasonal and have until January 5 to leave.
Currently, City Council is allowing the vendors to operate and is charging them a “minimal” sum as a “cleansing fee” to help workers clear the garbage that would be left behind on a daily basis.
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