Latest update April 4th, 2025 6:13 AM
High tides threatening Stabroek Market vendors
While every person across the country would try to make a little extra money this time of year, continuous flooding in the Stabroek Market has been preventing vendors who operate in the northern side of the building from doing so.
“By three ‘o’ clock when the tides get lil high we got to pack up and go home, and that is the time that most people start shopping,” said a frustrated curtain vendor as she gathers her stuff to pack up.
Stalls in the Stabroek Market were yesterday already closed at around 3pm as the tide rose.
Some, whose only means of income comes from what they earn on a daily basis, said that the regular flooding may most likely contribute to them and their families having a “fruitless Christmas”.
“Everybody pushing extra hours fuh buy more for their family and wid elections, God knows wah gon happen and we need money and right now business real tight,” another vegetable vendor standing in the flooded water complained.
Other stall owners, at the centre of the that city market, told Kaieteur News that vendors would leave as the water would rise since it even reaches the middle of the market place.
Suggestions from vendors include raising the river defense around the back of the market to keep the water out.
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