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  • 1 year ago
Meantime Chaguanas market vendors say they are one more day of heavy rains away, from being washed out. The vendors told TV6, shoddy work on the ceiling is to blame. However the Mayor says all the problems are being addressed, and more work could be done if the vendors pay the more than one million dollars in arrears. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00Chaguanas market vendors tell TV6, although the market was closed for three days last
00:06week for repairs, they are still under threat of being flooded out during heavy rains.
00:12The market vendors tried to sell all their perishable goods, leave what they could leave
00:17and the market did close for the three days that no vendor could sell. They had produce
00:25that they could have sold but they couldn't sell it. So they come like they set back everybody
00:30from making a dollar and then when they do come back to the market, the problem is not
00:35fixed.
00:36When the rain falls, explain to me exactly what is happening?
00:39Water, like if you're outside. People's goods getting wet, she's selling kitchen
00:45towels, she's selling bowls, things that could get damaged. She's selling garlic
00:49so it will get spoiled. Other people will sell other things, the water will run out.
00:53People could fall, they could slide. Pregnant people walking, children.
00:57The vendors say they brought the matter to the attention of the market's management
01:01on numerous occasions.
01:04Them don't come down and look for nobody. Only when you have to go upstairs, pay market
01:07fee, that is it. No market clerk don't walk downstairs in the market to see what's
01:11going on either. Like how a market clerk is supposed to walk and check out the place.
01:18They're also complaining about an intermittent water supply issue at the market.
01:23Toilet in a mess right now. We have to go, sometimes it's been more than one day,
01:29we have to go either by the casino or in the back by the bar.
01:34To use washroom?
01:35Yeah.
01:36But Mayor of Chukwuna's Faheek Mohamed says the cooperation has carried out and is still
01:41in the process of carrying out repairs and upgrades to the market, which should be finalised
01:46in the coming week.
01:48Work is still ongoing in the market. We noticed there's a leak from one of the gutter in.
01:55And on Monday, that will be rectified. And we're also looking to rectify all other leaks
02:02that is happening within the roofing system there.
02:06The entire toilet facilities was redone, fully refurbished, new tyres, new fixtures and fittings.
02:12I don't know if you get a chance to see it, but it's straight out of the art.
02:15It looks really good. So I believe all those plumbing issues were addressed, as well as
02:24meat chillers was fully refurbished as well too. We actually installed some new chillers
02:29as well. And that's another issue that was sorted out. There was no AC in the fish and
02:37meat section and that as well was sorted out.
02:39The mayor is sending the following message to the vendors.
02:42Now there's $1.4 million owing by these vendors. So I hope the ones that are complaining will
02:50start to pay so we can keep what we did. They love to make complaints, but I don't think
02:57they love to pay.
02:58Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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