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No new vendors on Regent Street for Christmas Season – Mayor

Nov 22, 2012 News

 

 

In order to keep the city clean for the Christmas holidays, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) says there will be no new vendors for the season especially along Regent Street. Those vending will have to hire private waste disposal services to dispose of their daily garbage.
Mayor Hamilton Green said that the situation will be monitored, He called on vendors not to block businesses and to ensure their surroundings are kept clean.
In September a clean-up campaign was launched in collaboration with Keith Burrowes’s Implementation Committee which wanted to remove vendors temporarily for the exercise to be effective. However, this was futile since most vendors were reluctant to remove.
Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba, noted that vending on Regent Street is illegal and that the issue was taken to the court before, with then Chancellor, Justice Desiree Bernard, pronouncing that “the M&CC is breaking its own laws and persons should be jailed.”
Businessmen noted that vendors on Regent Street pollute the environment with the garbage they leave after vending. In addition, vendors cause obstruction to traffic when they take over the pave and force pedestrians to walk into the path of traffic.

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