GEORGETOWN Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday met with top officials of the City Constabulary,other senior officers, councillors and vendors and reminded them of the need to do their jobs in accordance with the law. 

“Improve the way you ply your trade,” was the call made by Green at the meeting,” a statement from Public Relations Officer of the City Council Royston King said.
At the meeting, the mayor charged the vendors to ply their trade within the ambit of the law. “The vendors were encouraged to keep their environment clean…to have a refuse receptacle to deposit waste. They were asked not to block the entrances of businesses and not to hang their items for sale on the showcases of these businesses.”
Green observed that some vendors have established mini-stores on public thoroughfares that have encumbered the pavements and stressed that this cannot be condoned by the Council. The vendors were further asked not to give monies to the officers of the City Constabulary.
According to the mayor, it cannot be business as usual. “The vendors must improve the manner in which they ply their trade. He encouraged the officers of the Constabulary to uphold the laws,noting that some vendors conduct themselves in an undignified manner; many of them abuse officers of the City Constabulary.He asserted that this would not be tolerated,” the statement said.
The Public Health Department has expressed public health concerns as there has been an increase in barbering, manicuring and pedicuring on public thoroughfares. “These operations do not confirm to public health standards. It[sic] may put the health of citizens at risk.”