The market at Mon Repos is one of several similar facilities along the East Coast Demerara highway or on the Railway Embankment road.
They are, for the most part, centres of both economic and cultural activity, serving as both meeting places and trading posts. Villages with resident markets tend to encourage various forms of economic activity including fishing, farming and small-scale manufacturing. The markets serve as outlets for what they produce. But the markets also do more; they attract sellers from far-flung communities seeking to ‘try their hands’ in another environment and buyers who leave their own communities to ‘check out’ bargains elsewhere.
The market at Mon Repos has a character of its own. It comprises a building that accommodates