Timehri Neighbourhood Market vendors are still at loggerheads with the government’s decision to have them relocated to facilitate the road expansion project and they have pointed to impending danger and serious health violations at the new site.
In April, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn gave stallholders notices, in which it was indicated that they must relocate to a new tarmac built just behind the current market. But they refused at that time stating that it would be too expensive for them to “just pack up and move.”
The vendors are maintaining that they have no problem with moving their stalls but if the government wants them to move, it must be willing to compensate them, since they