City vendors to be licensed
Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Greene
Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Greene

GEORGETOWN Mayor, Patricia Chase-Greene has announced that street vendors in the City will soon have to obtain licenses from the Council to vend.Speaking at the Council’s Statutory Meeting on Monday, the Mayor said the licensing system will begin in 2017, and already, two meetings were held with the vendors to inform them about the impending decision.

“We had some fruitful discussions on the way forward as it regards to vending by stallholders and vending by street vendors,” she said, adding that “at one of the recent meetings held on September 4, we would have announced that the registration for street vendors will take place in 2017”.

Mayor Chase-Greene also said that the vendors were informed of a list of criteria they will have to meet to sell, but the Council will not demand they satisfy all at once.

“We will take it step by step as we go forward in registering those vendors and have them comply with their medical certificates, with registration, with having their TIN numbers.”

On meeting the set out criteria, the vendors will be issued an “Identification Card” that will indicate that they are temporary street vendors, the location they are selling and what they are selling.

“That is the only way we can bring about some order,” the Mayor said, while affirming that “All street vendors must be registered according to the law.”

The licences arrangement will be applied to all vendors within Georgetown, from Agricola to Cumming’s Lodge and it will only apply to street vendors and not stallholders.

On a different issue, but still on vending, the Mayor said the only immediate relocation of Georgetown vendors will be the fruit vendors in the Parliament View Area.

They are allowed to sell temporarily in front of the old Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB).

This was another successful decision that stemmed from engagements with the vendors, Chase-Green said.

“All others vendors will be taken care of under the National [Capital] Planning Commission,” she said, pointing out that “When the recommendations come from that Commission, then this Council will act.”

 

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