{"id":42368,"date":"2019-07-07T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=42368"},"modified":"2019-07-07T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T20:14:48","slug":"pm-tells-jamaicans-and-guyanese-stop-turning-market-street-into-shack-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-tells-jamaicans-and-guyanese-stop-turning-market-street-into-shack-city\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Tells Jamaicans and Guyanese Stop Turning Market Street Into Shack City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has sent a firm message to Jamaican and Guyanese who set up stalls on Market Street, the main gateway to St. John’s.<\/p>

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“It’s about our own national pride. You know they say cleanliness if godliness,” he stated.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said while he welcomes Caricom nationals, he won’t tolerate some of their practices.<\/p>

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“And I\u00a0 know some of them accustomed to knocking up shacks all around in Jamaica and in Guyana, colleagues when you all come here respect the culture of our country,” he sad on his radio show this weekend.<\/p>

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“You don’t have the right to go on market street and knock up a few pallets and clotting the streets and literally making the city look like a ramshackle city,” he warned.<\/p>\n

He said some Antiguans are also guilty of the same practice but on beaches.<\/p>

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“I mean we have to maintain some level of pride, even our own Antiguans. They take-up all kinds of galvanize and old board and knock up things on beaches and so on.<\/p>\n

Even if the beaches are public it doesn’t give you the right to go put up a little galvanize shack on there,” he said.<\/p>

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The prime minister said that going forward government and the authorities will take a tough stand on the issue.<\/p>

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He said those who cooperate will be accommodated elsewhere with possible financial assistance.<\/p>\n

“And the government will be very bullish going forward on those issues. So when DCA would have intervened to ask you all to remove you all old shacks and you have to move them cause if you don’t move them voluntarily they will be forcibly removed.”<\/p>\n

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