AFTER many broken promises and false hopes, Kitty Market vendors are set to get a modern vending area, after suffering in an eyesore of a facility for years.However, vendors will be asked to relocate temporarily to a nearby location during the renovation of the facility. During a tour of Georgetown yesterday, members of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) visited Rudolph Dyal to hold further discussions about renting his plot of land in Dowding Street for the temporary accommodation of the vendors.
According to M&CC’s Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis, plans were in the pipeline to shift the vendors to David Street, but this would have been inconvenient, as their customer base is within the vicinity of their present location.
However,Dyal disclosed that he had heard of the efforts by the M&CC to find a vacant place to relocate the vendors and thought to himself that his sizeable land, which is currently vacant, would be ideal for their temporary housing.
“Well, I am totally in for this, because I think it is time the vendors get a newly refurbished place. Therefore, I am now waiting for the M&CC to conclude the discussions and finalise a price for the rental of the land,” said the property owner.
PRIVATE SECTOR ASSISTANCE
Lewis declared that they will be moving to restore the market with the assistance of the private sector and this is just one of the persons who has decided to come on board, as others wait to play their part in the renovation of the market.
Meanwhile, Town Clerk Royston King on January 11 had described the Kitty Market as “unsafe and ruinous”, and called on city councillors to make a decision about whether or not the 46 vendors there would be relocated.
Addressing the municipality’s fortnightly statutory meeting at City Hall, King observed that the Kitty Market vendors were in harm’s way.
The market, sitting on the corner of Barr and Alexander Streets in Kitty, Georgetown, has time and again been described as an “eye sore”, as an “accident waiting to happen”, and as a “threat to life and limb.”