A week is approaching since a massive fire obliterated the Parika Market complex while it was in the second phase of rehabilitation and the dozens of affected vendors are patiently awaiting the further intervention of the government after being promised a grant of $300,000 each by President Irfaan Ali on Monday.
Although most of the vendors were absent yesterday when Stabroek News visited the burnt shell of the complex, one of them who wished not to be name contended that the grant being offered cannot compensate her for the amount of gold jewellery, clothes, fruits, and other products that she was selling and opined that she has suffered the heaviest losses compared to other vendors.