Anna Regina moves to end roadside vending

Mar 16, 2014 News

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) which now runs the town of Anna Regina has served notices to vendors, who have been vending for years on the road shoulders of the Anna Regina Old market. The vendors were given an ultimatum to desist from vending there by March 28.
Reports emerging from within the council body of the IMC are that the street vendors will be allowed to vend along the road shoulders of the Anna Regina old market for the next two weeks.
At the expiration of that deadline a meeting would be held with the IMC and members of the Local Government Ministry to decide on a more appropriate vending area.
It is suggested that some of the vendors who are currently vending on the road shoulders of the Anna Regina Old market had initially given up their stalls in the old market, when a new market was constructed at Cotton Field. This new market was to have replaced the old Anna Regina market.
That plan by the Anna Regina Town council however, did not materialize. The vendors in the old market kept their stalls and were reluctant to move from Anna Regina to Cotton Field.
The Council was forced to prosecute those vendors but the vendors at the Anna Regina Old market had won that case in the High Court. The council, still determined to have the vendors removed from the Anna Regina Old market to the new Cotton Field market, has appealed that case.
The Anna Regina old market was constructed through a self help initiative in the 1970s.
The Cotton Field market only operates on Fridays. Both vendors and shoppers are saying the distance is out of reach. Anna Regina is the town and the hub of daily business.

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