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POS City Corporation to clamp down on Carnival vending

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CAMILLE CLARKE

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion will be putting a tight squeeze on vend­ing in Port-of-Spain for Car­ni­val 2018.

Port-of-Spain may­or Joel Mar­tinez said that vend­ing would not be per­mit­ted on Ari­api­ta Av­enue dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Mar­tinez said that un­reg­is­tered ven­dors will have their goods cart­ed away by the po­lice.

He said the po­lice had a man­date to as­sist the Cor­po­ra­tion and they would know who the reg­is­tered ven­dors were.

"They will have to move un­reg­is­tered ven­dors and we have to start com­ply­ing with the law and bring or­der to the so­ci­ety. It has to be man­aged and we will al­low the po­lice to do their job in that re­gard and ask the po­lice to as­sist us in mak­ing the city safe," he said.

He said the cor­po­ra­tion was look­ing at the man­age­ment of the vend­ing on Ari­api­ta Av­enue over the years.

"We need to find out what is our best so­lu­tion and there a lot of ven­dors that are not in the sys­tem and come in peo­ple's dri­ve­ways and we want peo­ple to use the side­walk and the band the road­way. We are look­ing at pos­si­bly try­ing to man­age that," he said.

Ju­nior Lewis, pres­i­dent of the Char­lotte Street Ven­dors As­so­ci­a­tion said that if the ven­dors were in­ter­est­ed they would ap­ply to sell their goods on those days.

"We don't usu­al­ly come out and sell on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day but if they want they can ap­ply," he said.


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