Dear Editor,
I visited the Kitty Market on 14th March 2021 to purchase some items and I observed that the vendor used a rusty Gloria brand tin of milk as a substitute for a pound weight. I asked him about it and he said that he doesn’t have a pound weight but that the tin milk is equivalent to a pound. The approximate weight of the contents of a Gloria brand tin milk is 14.5 ounces which means it is 1.5 ounces short of a pound. I am sure the tin does not weigh 1.5 ounces. This means that this vendor has been defrauding many shoppers for quite a while now of their true weight. I also observed the dial scales which have been prohibited by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards being used by vendors in the Kitty market as well as the Stabroek and Bourda markets.
Editor a simple google search revealed that the last surveillance and inspection campaign carried out by the GNBS was in 2017 in the Stabroek and Bourda market area when several measuring devices were seized. However, I could not find out when was the last time the GNBS did a surveillance and verification campaign in the Kitty market area. Perhaps another surveillance and inspection campaign by the GNBS is long overdue and maybe this time they may include the Kitty market area.
Kind regards,
Shazad Sookram
