‘Parliament View’ vendors’ removed

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 January 2017, 8:50 by Denis Chabrol

Vendors, who once occupied the plot of land at the corner of Hadfield and Lombard Streets- Parliament View- were early Sunday morning removed from there.

Several stalls were demolished, while most of the vendors were  present to relocate their goods to a small plot of land south east of the Stabroek Market near the K&VC restaurant. Others had no choice but to take their properties home.

The owner of the land, Hareshnarine ‘Chiney’ Sugrim, has said that he needs the land to build a high-rise parking lot and restaurant.

The fruit vendors, according to sources, would most likely be allowed to vend outside the old Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB) building.

One vendor, who spoke with Demerara Waves Online News Sunday morning, said she would be unable to get adequate sales from inside the small congested area because already several vendors have occupied the front.

Ahead of Guyana’s 50^th Independence Anniversary, the vendors were removed from the car park on the southern side of Demico House and other areas close to Stabroek Market.

Sugrim had come to the rescue of the Georgetown City Council by allowing the vendors to ply their trade on the land free of cost.

More than 100 vendors had occupied the land since May, 2015  after the Municipal Government ordered them to relocate from areas that had been poorly kept. Authorities then had said that the congestion around Stabroek Market had been a haven for thieves and drug users.