Bourda Market vendors are yet again registering their frustration for the manner in which garbage disposal is managed in the inner section of the market.
They are calling for swift action on a problem that has been going on for years.
These complaints come days after garbage in several parts of the market garbage has been piling up. The situation has so far affected the business of many due to the current condition of the market in a COVID-19 environment.
Vendors at the market are calling on the authorities to fix the current problem at the market since business in a market where sales aren’t at the level as in the past.
“We have to work in this environment, I think this is extremely ridiculous and then they are talking about COVID. How can we avoid COVID in this manner? I think this is ridiculous.
“Can we stop COVID if we cannot get help in the sanitary area? They need to do better this,” a vendor explained.
The vendor also explained that it is rather unfair for them since the vendors within a particular area continue to lose a sale but have to bear the burden of revenues for services in which is not really provided at a level that is acceptable.
“If you look around here with all these stalls around here are closed everybody takes the outside market. This stall next to me shut up for months now and the girl in front says that she not going to pay any rent when she cannot get market in here.
“They are out on the road making a dollar. The stall on the western corner, they are closed also. The eastern corner stalls are also closed off and everyone is on the road.
“It is unfair for us. We have to pay rent; my rent is $26,000 a month and you don’t know if you are getting 26 dollars per day.”
The vendor is calling on the authorities to find a solution to a problem that has been occurring for years and yet there have been no suitable interventions by the authorities.
Over the past few days, vendors in the inner market area are seeing large piles of garbage being heaped in various sections of the market.
This, according to the Head of Solid Waste Department, Walter Narine, is mainly because the machine used in the disposal of the garbage is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
Narine said that while receiving the complaints from the vendor, in order to remedy the situation, some garbage disposal trucks were discharged in the affected areas.
The solution however to such a problem, according to another vendor, would only come if the vendors and vagrants stop their illegal dumping.
“A lot of stalls in here is vacant; they don’t have nobody selling. So, they don’t have anyone here that could throw that amount of garbage here. So the people that vending on the road need to stop vending on the road because that is where the garbage coming from.
A lot of vagrants in the market bring it and dumping it therefrom vendors on the road.” a vendor insisted.
This issue has led to some parts of the market being easily flooded when the rains fall.
That issue according to some has been happening due to the lack of the council to properly manage the area.
