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Stabroek vendors finally relocated
– despite atrocious conditions of the new site
Following Friday’s meeting at City Hall, vendors displaced by the Stabroek Market Square clean-up and clearing were yesterday able to register for and move to their spots in the new location designated by the Mayor 
and City Council (M&CC).
At the meeting, Town Clerk Royston King had stated that vendors would have to be registered with the Clerk of Markets beginning at 10:00am after which they would be granted a stall number.
They could then take up their allocated stall in the new location south of Parliament Building on Hadfield Street. The vendors had to sign a contract agreeing to occupy the new plot of land provided by the Council for three months after which they would be relocated to buildings that the M&CC would have already found to facilitate their permanent move.
Vendors were present at the Clerk of Markets at 7:00am yesterday. This newspaper spoke to several vendors who were waiting to be registered at around 12:30hrs yesterday. One woman stated that she had been waiting to be registered some three hours in the sweltering heat.
She said that the vendors were being registered according to their various merchandise being peddled: hat vendors, food vendors and beverage vendors in their respective groups.
They are being charged the regular $1000 per month for cleaning of the new location.
In addition to adverse conditions in front of the Clerk of Markets office, they were faced with the unsavoury attitudes of constabulary ranks posted at the door of the office.
At the new location, immediately noticeable was the state of the ground. While City Hall had claimed that the reasons for the relocation being delayed were to “properly” prepare the grounds and to install lights and sanitary facilities, the preparations looked insufficient in the face of the move.
One vendor at the new site told this newspaper that she was “disgusted with the new location”. She stated that while she was fully supportive of the cleanup around Georgetown, the way City Hall dealt with the vendors wasn’t “right”.
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