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Hydronie vendors irate after stalls burnt by RDC
Roadside vendors of Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo yesterday denounced what they said was a targeted campaign by councilors of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to take away their livelihood.
An estimated 40 vendors who sell on the weekends protested outside the home of PPP Councilor Leon Fowler yesterday. They said that Fowler and other PPP Councilors on the Market Committee of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) are insensitive to their plight.
Hydronie vendors on the protest line.
Last Sunday, the vendors had their goods confiscated by the Police and their stalls were burnt at the Bushy Park beach.
A stallholder who goes by the name of Aunty Annie said that she has been vending for the past ten years to make a living.
“I sell confectionery and whatever I get. Whatever come and I could mek a money, I does sell it,” she told Kaieteur News yesterday.
The woman said that they are unable to go into the nearby Parika Market because they cannot be accommodated there.
She said that the Councilors have pledged to work with the Police to ensure they, the vendors, do not ply their trade.
Harrynarine Deokinanan, a councilor of the Alliance for Change (AFC), was among those in the protest line.
He said that the Market Committee of the RDC must find a way to accommodate the vendors, since it was their means of living.
“You have to work on a solution with the people, not take bread out of their mouths.” Deokinanan told this newspaper.
He said that he plans to raise the issue at this week’s meeting of the RDC.
Activist Freddie Kissoon and trade union leader Lincoln Lewis were among those who gave support to the vendors yesterday.
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