Dear Editor,
I VISITED the Kitty Market on March 14, 2021 to purchase some items, and I observed that the vendor used a rusty Gloria brand tin of milk as a substitute for a pound weight. I asked him about it, and he said that he doesn’t have a pound weight, but that the tin of milk is equivalent to a pound.

The approximate weight of the contents of a tin of Gloria brand of milk is 14.5 ounces, which means it is 1.5 ounces short of a pound. I am sure the tin does not weigh 1.5 ounces; this means that this vendor has been defrauding many shoppers for quite a while now of their true weight. I also observed the dial scales which have been prohibited by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) being used by vendors in the Kitty Market, as well as the Stabroek and Bourda Markets.

I could not find out when was the last time the GNBS did a surveillance and verification campaign in the Kitty Market area. Perhaps another surveillance and inspection campaign by the GNBS is long overdue, and maybe this time they may include the Kitty Market area.

Yours sincerely,
Shazad Sookram