– wants shabby looking stalls demolished to make proposed Town attractive
PEOPLE’S Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Councillor of the Region 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam) Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Ms. Vilma Da Silva has called for a triple deck market at Charity, to beautify the area and stop vending in the shabby looking place on the river defence dam, road shoulders and street corners.

Speaking at a recent statutory meeting of the RDC, she said Charity, which is earmarked for township status is, currently, stinking with garbage and is unattractive for tourism.
She said the proposed port of entry gateway to the gold fields in the North West District, Venezuela, Colombia, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean must be developed and cleaned up to showcase the quality products that Pomeroon produces.
According to her, the picture of Charity now is one of garbage, blocked drains with hundreds of plastic soft drink bottles and shabby looking stalls which are an embarrassment to tourists.
Da Silva, who operates a water coconut bottling plant in the Pomeroon and heads the Pomeroon Women Cottage Industry at Charity, said she is ashamed to take foreigners who come to look at quality products to walk around the area, because of garbage thrown all over the place by vendors.
She said, at the end of the road in Charity, the Puran Brothers Garbage Disposal Company has placed three containers to collect solid waste but the way vendors and business operators are dumping in the containers is an embarrassment to the general public.
Da Silva said garbage is thrown all over the ground and is not cleared regularly by the company. The councillor declared that the site stinks and the Neighbourhood Democratic Council and the Public Health Department are allowing vendors to sell clothes, meat, fish,
groceries and fruits not far from the garbage containers.
She declared that the shabby picture of Charity is killing tourism and something needs to be done, urgently, to correct the situation.
Da Silva said, if a triple deck market is constructed, it will automatically remove the shabby looking stalls and vendors from encroaching on the road and street shoulders and will make Charity into a town and, eventually, a developed city.
She said the area and the Pomeroon have great potentials for development.
Written By Rajendra Prabhulall