GTUC to examine making limited trading spaces available on the CLC Campus under strict rules – Lewis

GTUC General Secretary Lincoln Lewis

Subject to consultation with the rest of the leadership of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) a limited number of urban traders could benefit from trading spaces on the premises of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) that will allow them to market their goods on specific days, between specific time frames agreed between the management of the Campus and the vendors who will be allowed to trade there. “The idea here is that the Trades Union movement is considering making an intervention that will support the efforts of urban Guyanese who trade for a living and who derive insufficient opportunity – and in some instances no opportunity at all – to secure advantageous trading spaces in the capital,” Lewis told the Stabroek Business earlier this week. Lewis added, however, that while he is “passionate about the idea” he is not, in his capacity as General Secretary of the movement to take such a decision without consultation.